> I wouldn't want academia to focus on business. I don't believe that OP's comment counts as focusing on business. To me, it's an effective way to engage stude

> I wouldn't want academia to focus on business. I don't believe that OP's comment counts as focusing on business. To me, it's an effective way to engage students with a real-world use of the tech they are about to learn, thus establishing a baseline to gain perspective of how the academical part matters. Otherwise you risk concentrating the course on a perspective taken from the top of the proverbial ivory tower that leads students to just go through the course without taking anything out of it.