Hi Dr. Fawcett, I have been with Nokia Mobile Phones (CDMA division) from July '04. My job as a SW UI Design Engineer involves maintaining Software Component Factories that make up the UI SW for the Nokia Phones. I am currently working on the Series 40 CDMA UI Software. The work involves mostly dealing with OOC (Object Oriented C) although designing is done in a higher level tool which is proprietary to Nokia. I deal with low level C code, byte packing algorithms, request/response type of communication between servers and clients ( called ISA architecture) and debugging code using phone simulators. I have been in three of your courses and have learned a lot. I though Studio is one of the best courses because the experience of teamwork and deadlines is very important even to the best programmer! OOD taught me the design principles that made my life easier when working with design groups. I also admire the fact that you allow your students to "figure out" your code, which is exactly what happens in the industry! This experience also was fruitful for me! Finally, thanks for your teachings and I hope you keep teaching those courses for a long time! Regards, Prateek Dalvi