Stanford Offers Free iPhone App Developer Course

as much as I’m not a MS fan, they have a free version of their Visual Studio software availabe called Visual Studio Express. It provides most of the tools you’ll find in the non-free version. Also, if I happened to own a Mac, MS wouldn’t have a problem with me installing one of their operating systems on my Mac hardware in order to develop for their system. Apple, on the other hand, tries to pull, dubiously legal, shenanigans like putting clauses in their EULA stating you’re only allowed to install their OS on Apple hardware. As for documentaion and SDKs, MS had always been good about releasing them for free and, most importantly, with no strings attached like the Apple NDA. I own an iPod touch (got it for Christmass) and would love to try developing for it. I, however, don’t own a Mac and have neither the interest or the money to. The iPod touch is supposed to support Windows, they’re certainly willing to take our money, but they won’t release a development kit for it. As a developer, I know that the SDK is written in Cocoa and that it would be a lot of work to get it ported to Windows. I wouldn’t be so annoyed at them if they would bother to, at least, release a basic compiler/dev kit that would run on the touch/iPhone itself. I don’t need a fancy IDE and I don’t mind if compiling takes a long time. I’m sure others could put together basic tools such as a syntax translator for the Eclipse IDE pretty quickly. All the arguments about the syetem not supporting Cocoa fly out the window in that case. baby gates for stairs Reply