May 25, 2009

Even Stanford Grads Are Hurting in the Downturn

With the high-end job market all but dead, what's a Stanford grad todo? Answer: Create an iPhone App. TIME reports.

quotemarksright.jpg... The Stanford Computer Science department offers a popular course called "iPhone Application Programming." Many students have already taken their class projects and rolled them out as commercially available applications. The fall class of 50 students produced eight successful iPhone apps; the spring class is 20% larger, though it's too early to say how they'll fare commercially.quotesmarksleft.jpg