Stanford iPhone Dev Class on iTunes University

[Pangloss]

Stanford University is running its introductory course on iPhone application development in an open format, available for free to the public via iTunes University. To access it just download iTunes and click on the "iTunes U" link on the main store page. From there you can't miss it; there are banners for it everywhere.

 

The course is taught by two Apple employees from the iPhone dev team, and covers all the basics of interface design and data management and display, but not OpenGL/game stuff. You build a couple of applications including a Twitter client.

 

Here's a link to the class home page, which includes a link that you can use to connect to the iTunes site after you have it installed:

http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/index.php

 

I imagine Apple is sponsoring it to some extent, but there's no advertising or any kind of marketing requirements involved, and you do NOT have to submit personal information in order to download the lectures, etc (though you do have to log into iTunes to get them).