Die Stanford University gehört zu den renommiertesten und, mit knapp 17 Milliarden Dollar Stiftungsvermögen, zu den reichsten Hochschulen der Welt.

Um ihr iTunesU Angebot auszubauen, bietet Stanford  ab sofort auch gratis Kurse zum Thema iPhone App-Programmierung an.

Want to know how to write programs for the iPhone and iPod touch? Beginning this week, a Stanford computer science class on that buzzworthy topic will be available online to the general public for free.

The 10-week course, iPhone Application Programming, is a hot ticket. It begins today and videos of the classes will be posted at Stanford on iTunes U two days after each class meeting (http://itunes.stanford.edu). Copies of the slides shown in class will be available there as well.