iTunes U

Stanford University has recently begun offering a free iPhone app development course via iTunes U. The 10-week course is hosted by Apple engineers who walk students through every aspect of iPhone app development. We've taken a look at the first lecture and really enjoyed it. You'll need to already know Objective-C to actually dive in and start writing apps with this course, but it's great to check out even if you're just curios.

In the spirit of encouraging development after greatly loosening their iPhone developer NDA, Apple has posted several sessions from this year's WWDC 2008 to iTunes U. Unfortunately, they're only available to Premiere members of the Apple Developer Connection program.