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New official Apple program for teaching iPhone dev at uni

The new program, offered through Apple's own Developer Connection, allows …

Hooray! Apple has started a new, official program for university professors and instructors wishing to teach courses in iPhone development. The program is offered via Apple's Developer Connection to accredited, higher education institutions in the US for free.

The iPhone Developer University Program lets instructors to create teams of up to 200 students. After that, they will be allowed to access to the iPhone SDK, iPhone Dev Center resources, a certificate allowing applications to be installed and tested on iPhone/iPod touch hardware, and Ad-Hoc or App Store distribution. (The SDK is free to download, but gaining access to certificates to test on hardware and distribute apps normally costs $99. And Ad-Hoc distribution is normally limited to 100 users, while the university program will allow professors up to 200.)

This new program should allow instructors enough latitude to teach development for Apple's newest mobile platform. There's no word on what issues might arise from the ducking NDA, but the implication is that students and instructors can at least discuss NDA'd features amongst themselves.

Channel Ars Technica