Stanford to offer iPhone programming course

Isn't it more likely this course isn't 100% iphone specific but more obj-c and cocoa oriented. *also* covering iphone dev is a logical step but might not even be the main topic.

Also the guys from Automattic (Wordpress) have released the source of their Wordpress app publicly, i think the NDA is not as strict as everyone thinks.

In Munich (Germany) we even started planing the course in February before the official SDK and the course started one month after the SDK announcement.

http://wwwbruegge.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/twiki/bin/view/Lehrstuhl/PrakCocoaSoSe2008

I'm on a Mac mailing list hosted by my university and roughly a month ago, an Apple representative (who is generally an active member of the list) put out a query to the teaching community asking if iPhone programming was going to be taught. So I would think that they know about it and are in some way sponsoring it:

"I'm looking for examples of courses being taught at your university that have (or will soon have) iPhone application programming integrated into the curriculum. Please reply off-list directly to ____________@apple.com using the following template:

Course name/number:
Department:
Professor name:
Description of iPhone application programming in curriculum:
"

The SDK is free to download to anybody therefore teaching how to code it an application is perfectly legal. However if a student in this class wanted their application iPhone developer and pay the $99 fee. I think it's a great idea I have been having major issues trying to code for the iPhone and Apples documentations just don't help enough. The fact that there are no book out there on creating iPhone apps yet either doesn't really help either. Standford could help create these books and other unique tools and hopefully post their classes on iTunes U so the rest of us can learn with.

You can take the course, but any credits you earn toward graduation cannot be disclosed in your transcript.

how exactly arent they all still under nda???

... www.Fuckingnda.com

I assume the ad-hoc programme would be in effect here to facilitate the use of the SDK for the course?

As with recent cases with Apple, their legal disclosures don't run parallel to the company's bullet train innovation and product deployments. I would not be surprised if their legal team had no clue about this entire issue until after Tom Yager at Infoworld posted about it. Assuming that, and based off of the Safari for Windows incident, Apple will most likely revise their TOS for the SDK and make it as flexible as their ADC programme.

This happens alot in large companies - the right hand doesn't always know what the left hand is doing.

Can somebody explain what this whole NDA thing is?

Damn you Stanford you have bested WSU once again.

Too bad you still suck at football.

Go Cougs.

Here's hoping they post the lectures on iTunes U.