Official Apple iPhone Developer University Program, Stanford Participates

[MacRumors]

Apple announced details of an iPhone Developer University program to allow higher education institutions provide courses on iPhone and iPod touch programming.

The University Program provides a wealth of development resources, sophisticated tools for testing and debugging, and the ability to share applications within the same development team. Institutions can also submit applications for distribution in the App Store.

The program is available to accredited, higher education institutions in the U.S. and allows universities an avenue to provide official courses that do not violate Apple's iPhone SDK non-disclosure agreement.

Stanford is taking advantage of Apple's Developer University Program with a new course this fall titled iPhone Application Programming which currently has more than 80 students registered.

Stanford also announced today that they are working on a project to make several of its web-based services available to students as iPhone applications:

A suite of five software applications developed by students is now being tested on campus. Two of them, for managing course registration and bills, are intended for students. The other three will allow access to Stanford's searchable campus map, get team scores and schedules, and check listings in the university's online directory, StanfordWho.

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[Eric S.]

Alright Stanford!

[Monty1]

I wish I went to stanford

[obilix]

Now the question that has to be asked:

Do the students have to fill out a NDA to enter the course?

Edit: Whoops! missed that Non-NDA line there. But then what does the NDA fulfill then?

[Mykbibby]

That is amazingly awesome. I'd love to take that course.

[JAYGEE]

If you come up with a great App, you have hit the jackpot

[theheadguy]

It's cool... but I wouldn't consider this earth-shattering. A lot of places are making apps for use internally, this just happens to be education-related.

[arn]

Originally Posted by obilix

Now the question that has to be asked:

Do the students have to fill out a NDA to enter the course?

Edit: Whoops! missed that Non-NDA line there. But then what does the NDA fulfill then?

they may have to fill out an NDA. Not sure how it works. But before this, universities offering iphone dev classes would be violating the NDA, so this gives them an apple sanctioned way.

arn

[bigandy]

Nice idea there.

[Rybold]

Great idea! Go Stanford!

Also, the custom app that allows students to register for classes from their phones is a sweet idea.

[jakk2809]

I'm going to talk to my CS professors about apply for this program. And I wish I went to Stanford.

[BeyondtheTech]

What we need is a Strayer or Phoenix to grab these, but they'd probably sell it to students at a premium.

[rendezvouscp]

I’m excited about the Stanford map app that they’re working on. Their current online map is super helpful, but this is even better!

[moz5835]

Hold on a frikkin' minute here...

So Stanford can teach classes on programming for the iPhone, but I can't buy a book teaching me how to do the same because Apple's iPhone SDK NDA won't allow it?

http://bnlv.com/2008/09/iphone-sdk-secret-dev-kit/

And today's news from Pragmatic Programmers:

http://www.pragprog.com/news/ubuntu-...st-iphone-news

It now appears that Apple does not intend to lift the NDA any time soon. Regrettably, this means we are pulling our iPhone book out of production. But all is not lost: we are actively looking at alternative ways of getting this content to you. It probably won’t happen anytime soon, but know that we are doing what we can.

Book publisher's of the world - open the printing floodgates my friends...

[Mykbibby]

Originally Posted by Rybold

Great idea! Go Standord!

Do I even need to say anything?

[vandy1997]

It looks like Standord is participating as well - now we have TWO schools teaching iPhone courses!

Originally Posted by Mykbibby

Do I even need to say anything?

[TheSlush]

I recommend they use the map pin style from iPhone's Google Maps.

[eastcoastsurfer]

So the only way to learn iPhone programming is either on your own or pay $$$ to go to Stanford. Brilliant! What happened to the days of buying a couple books or reading websites?

I wonder if these students will be allowed to talk about their iPhone class online?

[DTphonehome]

But you get no course feedback until after the final exam, at which point you find out if you fail or pass, but you get no explanation why.

[kjs862]

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come on stony brook - iPhone classes for everyone!

[ChrisA]

Now all they have to do is add the iPhone classes to this program....
http://see.stanford.edu/see/courses.aspx

These classes are offered free to anyone. I'm interested in the Natural Language class.

[Eddyisgreat]

Very cool.

Now they just need to offer them at the University of Washington!

[MacTraveller]

Not a bad idea.

I wonder.... didn't Apple support some kind of "Macintosh Developer Academy" in universities in the past?

[happydude]

so is one of the grading criteria whether or not you have a crystal ball to look into the future your app's acceptance possibility since apple seemingly takes all the submitted apps in a given day, puts them up on a wall, blindfolds a trained monkey to throw darts at the wall and whatever apps the monkey hits get rejected.

[kornyboy]

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This is crazy and cool all at the same time. I think it would be neat to take an iPhone programming class.