A while ago, I stumbled across the Stanford iPhone courses on iTunesU. The courses are videos of the actual iPhone development course at Stanford University. I used these a few months ago to get familiar with the XCode IDE and the iPhone SDK.
Now that I actually landed a small gig as an iPhone developer, I have been thrown into the belly of the beast. Because I'm in such a fast-paced environment, I'm learning WHAT to do to get things working, but not so much WHY I'm doing it this way. I'd rather not be solely a creature of habit, and would like to understand the inner-workings of the code that I'm....coding.
With that being said, I decided to take some time and revisit the Stanford iPhone course. I believe this will be time well-spent; an investment in my future as a Cocoa/ Objective-C developer. After finishing the first episode, I feel enlightened on a couple of nagging issues I had before. I'm sure this trend will continue as I progress through the course.
I actually found another iPhone course at RWTH Aachen (a German school). Maybe I'll check this out another time.
MIT Has some comp sci courses also. Open Courseware is that deal! http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm
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