The Apple
iPhone and Apple's App Store have become so popular that Stanford University is now offering a free
online course for those developers interested in writing apps for the iconic
smartphone.
On April 1, Stanford announced that it will broadcast a free, 10-week class
called “iPhone Application Programming,” which will be posted at the university’s iTunes U Website.
The lectures, which started this week, will be posted two days after the actual
class, and the university will also make slides and other material from the
class available.
The classes are being offered through Stanford’s Department of Computer
Science. However, those watching the online version of the course are not
eligible for course credit.
The Apple App Store has been garnering a lot of attention in the last few
months as the
applications being developed and built for the iPhone are, in a way, more
popular now than the actual physical device. Apple executives have said
that there are now more than 25,000 apps for the iPhone, and users have
downloaded more than 800 million applications from the App Store.
