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Stanford’s free iPhone course hits 1 million downloads

May 19, 2009 /

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Stanford University on Monday said its free iPhone Application Programming course http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/itunes.stanford.edu.2024353965.02024353968 has been downloaded more than 1 million times since being uploaded to Apple’s iTunes U–a learning-focused area of iTunes–seven weeks ago.

The course is a series of classroom videos taken from the live lectures at Stanford. Apple engineers teach the course to students in an auditorium at Stanford’s Quad–the videos are uploaded to iTunes U two days after every class, giving the public free access to the material. The university even makes copies of the slides shown during the class available to the public.

by Jim Dalrymple

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