Want to learn how to create an iPhone app? Later this week, aspiring app creators will be able to start watching a popular Stanford computer science course on developing iPhone apps right on their iPhones. Stanford will start distributing the course for free as a video podcast throughiTunes U. (The podcasts can also be watched on iPods and computers, obviously).
With more than 25,000 apps out there, which have been downloaded more than 800 million times, the competition is fierce for making the best apps. Apple itself provides a wealth of information for developers about its SDK, but for those who need a little more guidance or a refresher in the basics, watching these videos is like continuing education. The videos are not on iTunes yet, but the first one should appear within the next few days.
Why pay to go to Stanford when you can get the lecture on iTunes for free?
Any other place to watch this video?
You dont need videos, here is a step by step walkthrough
http://tinyurl....Iphoneapp4newbs
Its only offered for a certain amount of time, the price is worth it just for the fact it teaches you how to make apps, but thats not it. it also teaches you how to get them on the app store and make money from them.
http://tinyurl....Iphoneapp4newbs
its worth every penny.
Will they putting the video up on any other video sites, like YouTube? I can imagine it would be easier to pass on a link to friends then.
Since it is available as a Podcast on iTunes I’m guessing you can subscribe on your desktop computer as well. I think the “on your iPhone” thing was kind of just for fun.
Correct me if I’m wrong…
Great if it really happens…suspicious considering it was posted on April 1st.
This will be great, I’m really happy to see them offering classes like this. I wish they had stuff like this back when I was in college.
Great. Gotta love the interest of universities into free online video. Now only have to fix me an apple and an iphone…
Because I curse iTunes on a regular basis.
That’s awesome!!!
Actually it’s not awesome. The free knowledge is great, but imagine thousands of high schoolers, and hobbyist creating clones of clones, and pushing them onto the App Store. The noise to signal ratio will spike.
Oh, did I mention these people will be recreating apps for nothing. For most kids, or hobbyist, if you get any $$, it’ll be great. But for the ‘real’ app companies, it’ll just mean lost revenue.
Basically, free knowledge is great, but making it available to everyone, whom can infinitely clone a product, poisons the eco-system, since R&D will mean rip-off, and duplicate.
And if you think you’re hot shit because you can program in Objective C, you’re wrong. You can bootstrap a quick app together with how-tos. You don’t need OOP to copy and app. You just need time. And this demographic has lots.
Brad, you sound like a grumpy old business analyst. Free knowledge truly is great but it’s what you do with that knowledge that matters. So this knowledge will spring forth onto the masses and allow them to educate and motivate themselves into new and exciting prospects in the world of software development. Is that so bad? The more opportunity the better.
Let the people embrace knowledge and develop to their hearts’ content. It doesn’t mean you have to buy any crappy apps. Money talks, right? Just don’t buy them.
And nobody says they’re hot-anything. I’m thinking you have some bitterness issues but who am I to judge?
I think it’s really awesome. It’s good for Apple, good for developers and good for final users. You can’t consider only the wrong use of knowledge; a lot of people will learn how to make software for their phones, or improve their programming skills… and doing this will create a wider variety of good quality applications.
I think the solution is for App store to keep the first thousand dollars of any apps you sell. Then there will be much less incentive to publish me-too fart apps….
It’s just great that they are sharing this knowledge!! After going through those videos, I’d consider visiting Phonegap.com as well so that you can develop apps not just for Apple.
Check out academicearth.org, there are a bunch of lectures from stanford and will maybe feature this one (I am currently following a java programming class from standford, awesome because all handouts / homework is online!)
Shouldn’t be that big of a deal for a top engineering school to put their courses up online. Hasn’t MIT been doing this for some time now?
I am sure glad I am not a student at Stanford or any of the other Ivy’s that are participating in the open courseware movement. That would piss me off royally to know that I am taking on hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt while the lectures are being made publicly available.
The value of going to Stanford or any other top league undergrad (or heck even an MBA school) is less about the classroom learning but more about the brand, the network and the overall experience.
brad, you are afraid of high schoolers?
I second Parakram.
Original author’s question “why pay when content is free” illudes toward problem newspaper industry is going through.
If true, its not the same. Return on news consumption is knowledge gathering where as return on college investment is documented credentials apart from brand, network and experience (as Parakram puts it)
Thank you very much for sharing this great resource its really helpful for those who want to learn to create an iPhone application. some of the students looking for these type of class.
That is really good. I wonder how much the tuition will be?
Hopefully they will have the video on their web site as well, like they do with Stanford Edcorner: http://ecorner.stanford.edu/
I love listening to these podcasts..and I love that i don’t have to get them via iTunes!
As a beginner I found this worth watching.
The first Lecture movie is a 741.6 MB download and is a little over an
hour long. The actual training slides start at 42:12 in the movie after
they go through a lot of class admin information you won’t care about.
The demo which shows how to use xcode and the Interface Builder to make a
simple application starts at 50:38.
I found the Demo to be great! However note that his xcode screens and
toolbars have been customized so your just installed xcode will not look
like his. Also, he makes a program that crashes because he does not
always make sure the values he types in “stick”. Make sure as you try
the Demo that you hit the enter key so the values stick.
The class site is
http://www.stan...i-bin/index.php
Does anyone know if the supplementary lectures will be available on iTunes U as well? He mentioned Friday lectures (in particular one about debugging).
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