iPhone Apps Class at Stanford

Last year, Stanford offered a Facebook Application Class literally the Fall after the Facebook F8 platform launched. The class did really well and produced some high traffic applications. This morning I learned (thanks to Brad Feld) that Stanford offered an iPhone Application Development Class for Fall 08 (the iPhone platform only launched in Summer 08) and they’ve been kind enough to put up the full course materials online. It’s nice to see a University on the cutting edge of web technology and I hope the students there appreciate the opportunities that they get to learn this kind of material for credit. It’s also awesome that Stanford is sharing the knowledge with the public and open-sourcing all of the course materials. I’m usually a skeptic on mobile, but I think Apple has nailed the user experience for mobile with the iPhone and they’ve made a believer out of me.