Slash LaneDubbed iPhone Developer University, the new program allows instructors and professors to create a development team with up to 200 students free of charge. It offers all of the same tools granted to paid iPhone developers, including the iPhone SDK, but also provides iPhones and iPod touches for evaluation purposes.
"With the suite of sophisticated and elegant tools included in the iPhone SDK, and a wide-range of resources in the iPhone Dev Center, students participating in the class will have everything they need to create innovative applications for iPhone and iPod touch," Apple says.
It appears the company will treat university development teams like small companies, allowing members to discuss the iPhone SDK and inner workings of iPhone development with one another.
Students within the same development team will also be able share their applications with each other through email, or by posting them to a private website for presentation and grading purposes. In addition, higher education institutions can submit applications developed by students for distribution on the App Store.
The program is presently available only to to accredited, higher education institutions in the United States.
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Great- is it iSchool or Snap U?
Wish I could go back to uni...
Nice to see them doing SOMETHING right by developers.
Nice to see them doing SOMETHING right by developers.
Hyperbole much?
Really think about it if they get rid of the effen NDA a good portion of the issues with passing along iPhone knowledge goes a way. That means people to old for university, those with good ideas but very small development teams and Apple novices can all grow quickly with respect to skills. Other wise Apple ends up with a whole class of developers that can't well develops professionally on the platform. In any event I'm beginning to think the whole reason for the NDA is to supress discussion about decisions related to app store. What secrets actually exist in an API once the software is released? I mean yeah an NDA made sense before 2.0's arrival in iPhone 3G but what is the excuse now? Apple of late has become a very bitter apple to take a bite of.
Dave