Tizen Students of Four Russian Universities Completed the Tizen Educational Program

During the six-month course, more than 200 students from these institutions mastered the development of apps for the open-source Tizen OS. Samsung provided them with Tizen smartphones and Gear wearables.

Students could see that the use of HTML5 and JavaScript – standard web programming tools – offers a low entry threshold for Tizen app development. They especially appreciated the opportunity to see the results of their work on real devices.

At the end of the course, students created their own varied applications – from organizers and players to games. Alexey Kharlamov, a student at the Higher School of Economics (leader Sergei Papulin), made an application that informs users of attractions and cultural events near their current location published by the KudaGo service. Students from Novosibirsk – Mytnik Anton and Yermolaeva Julia (head Tomilov Ivan) – developed a 5×5 game of ‘tic-tac-toe’ using heuristics from artificial intelligence. Students from KFU designed memorable projects under the leadership of Alimova Ilseyar. Titov Vladislav and Shalafaeva Elvira thought about how to help organize a complex event such as a wedding. Their application ‘Wedding Helper’ helps to track the budget, form a seating plan and guest list, plan the wedding day and more.

The course material prepared by the teachers will be posted on the Tizen.org website, a public resource supported by the Technical Steering Group, the Linux Foundation and the Tizen Association. Russian material will appear on the website for the first time, which will facilitate novice developers in exploring Tizen.

Sergei Papulin, the instructor of the course at the Higher School of Economics, said, «The high speed of IT development often leads to a situation where knowledge obtained by a student during their training rapidly becomes obsolete. I believe the main way to solve this problem is interaction between the university and leading IT companies. At the Faculty of Computer Science, HSE, and as a result of cooperation with Samsung, we have created a modern course to develop applications for the Tizen platform. I hope this successful experience will evolve and our cooperation will continue to strengthen.»

Roman Einbund, Head of the Business Solutions division at the Samsung Research Center, said, «The Tizen educational program has a variety of educational formats including courses in universities, student exercises and open resource educational materials. All this allows a Tizen ecosystem to develop in Russia. The latest 3.0 OS version contains a course on solving problems in the Internet of Things, which makes Tizen a particularly promising and interesting platform for developers.»

In addition to close cooperation with universities within the Tizen educational program, aimed at the student audience, Samsung is also actively developing educational programs for schoolchildren. For example, the IT SCHOOL Samsung project is aimed at the extracurricular education of senior pupils in the field of programming in more than 20 regions of Russia, from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok. The syllabus of the Samsung IT SCHOOL course was developed by the Samsung Research Center and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT). Other Samsung projects in Russia such as «UchimZnayem» and «Live Pages» are also aimed at educating schoolchildren, and they award various prizes.

Tizen is an open-source operating system based on Linux. It has low technical requirements compared to the characteristics of the equipment and works with a wide range of devices, from PCs, laptops and smartphones, to televisions, portable devices, multimedia systems, video cameras and household appliances. This makes Tizen a universal operating system for the Internet of Things. The mobile version of the Tizen OS has a FSTEC security certificate that guarantees the confidentiality of data on the device, giving Tizen undisputed advantages when used in the Russian corporate market.