Free iPhone Development Course
Interested in learning iPhone or iPod Touch development but having a hard time plowing through all the websites, manuals and how-to books? Well, a classroom course may be just right for you. But, chances are, your local university or technical college isn’t running any Intro To iPhone development courses. But, who needs them?!
Standford University has made their fantastic CSP193 – Introduction To iPhone Programming course available for free via iTunesU and the Internet. Each of the 14 lectures, plus additional materials is about an hour long. In addition, the website for the class has all of the assignments, guide, and even a list of links for document and resources.
The lectures are both informative and well presented – remember, this is a real class at Stanford University. It is hard to find a better learning environment than that. So the value of this course and material can’t be overstated. And if you have any doubts, just look at the credentials for the instructors….
Evan Doll is a Stanford CS alum and has been working at Apple for five years. After a stint in Pro Apps which included work on Final Cut and Aperture, he joined the iPhone team for version 1.0 and every release thereafter. His responsibilities include a variety of iPhone applications as well as the view controller classes in the UIKit framework.
Alan Cannistraro has worked at Apple for the last nine years, bouncing back and forth between roles as a designer and an application developer. His fondness for music and video has led him to work on several different products, including Final Cut Pro, iPod, and most recently the iTunes Remote app for the iPhone and iPod touch.
Paul Marcos has worked at Apple and NeXT for the last 15 years. Primarily focused on application development, Paul has most recently been working on applications for the iPhone. Before that he spent many years working on Mail, the email client that ships with Mac OS X, and helping to develop the first version of Aperture in the Pro Apps department.
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I think the Stanford lectures are great and you can learn allot but the course at Stanford also has extensive hands on workshops with the students and teachers looking over their shoulder when they work on the app exercises.
I think you’ll have a tough time really learning how to develop iPhone apps by just watching videos and even reading books. You have to get together in a workshop and work on the applications with the instructors and other students in the workshop.
The iphonebootcampnyc.com offers a three day intensive workshop in eleven cities in iPhone Development and our students save them save themselves months of time trying to figure it out on their own.
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