Do you need to know programming to make a informational app for the iPhone?

This sounds like the perfect project for a webapp done in html5, jquery, jqtouch, and javascript.

There are some great tutorials out there on how to do some awesome web-apps. You could setup the app to download most of the files for the structure and interaction to the phone, then update the information via a web connection when it's available.

After you get that going, there are also some applications available that will do most of the conversion for you if you want to make the app a "native" app.

There are also some applications out there now that will help you make a decent "native" app without much programming knowledge at all. I believe the game that has dethroned Angry Birds was made using such software.

I know it's not a ton of info, but at least a place to start.

Here are some links to check out...

http://sixrevisions.com/web-development/html5-iphone-app/

http://ofps.oreilly.com/titles/9780596805784/

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1169819/iphone-web-application-development

http://www.bennadel.com/blog/1945-U...ne-s-App-Mode-For-Native-Web-Applications.htm

http://sixrevisions.com/web-applications/designing-web-apps-for-the-ipad/

http://blog.infoentropy.com/Learning_PhoneGap_iPhone

Hope it helps