Last spring the University of Queensland in Australia offered a course in designing mobile applications. Teaching Coordinator Aaron Tan said the enormous popularity of the iPhone and other types of smartphones have created a demand for mobile applications. It is believed that the course, Comp 3000, was the first of it's kind in Australia.

According to the article on the university's website Mr. Tan said:

“Courses like this have been very popular in the US, so I think that there is interest on campus, students just haven't been given an outlet to express it,” Mr Tan said.

“I'm hoping that this course is a starting point, and will lead to discussion groups or just ad hoc activity.”

He said students would be creating applications for the iPhone and Android operating systems. He is encouraging students from outside the engineering and computer science fields to apply. As a culminating project the students will have to create a new application for assessment.