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Official Apple iPhone Developer University Program, Stanford Participates

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.

Stanford provides the following screenshots of their iPhone apps in testing:

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44 months ago
Alright Stanford! :D
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44 months ago
I wish I went to stanford
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44 months ago
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?
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44 months ago
That is amazingly awesome. I'd love to take that course.
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44 months ago
If you come up with a great App, you have hit the jackpot :D
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44 months ago
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.
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44 months ago

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.

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44 months ago
Nice idea there.
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44 months ago
Great idea! Go Stanford!

Also, the custom app that allows students to register for classes from their phones is a sweet idea. :)
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44 months ago
I'm going to talk to my CS professors about apply for this program. And I wish I went to Stanford.
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