Interested in learning how to develop your own iPhone or iPod Touch application?

Stanford University has just begun to post video podcasts from their iPhone Application Programming course and the first class video podcast is up. The title of the first podcast is ”Introduction to Mac OS X and Cocoa Touch”.

Click on the image below to launch iTunes U…

Here is some additional information about the course…

AppleInsider | Stanford to publish free iPhone course on iTunes U

“Stanford University will be publishing video podcasts and slides from its popular ‘iPhone Application Programming’ course on iTunes U for free to the general public, beginning this week.

‘There’s a lot of interest in the iPhone,’ said Brent Izutsu, Stanford’s project manager for Stanford on iTunes U. ‘This course provides an excellent opportunity for us to show the breadth and depth of our curriculum and the innovation of our students.’

For-credit enrollment in the class is limited this quarter, which began two days ago. Students taking the class will also need an Intel Mac and will probably want an iPhone, although Stanford offers loaner iPod touch units. The course lasts for ten weeks, so it will just be finishing up as Apple prepares to release the new iPhone 3.0 at WWDC.

The video podcasts will present the same Stanford lectures on developing for the iPhone and iPod touch to the public using Apple’s iTunes U within a couple days of each class meeting, providing easy access to the course materials for iPhone and iPod users as well as desktop Mac and PC users and other devices with the ability to play standard H.264 video.”

(Via Apple Insider)

For current developers who have had a chance to check out the podcast… is something like this useful for individuals starting out? What do you think of the content and quality of instructional information?

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