There's no greater teacher for a young developer than the cruel reality of life in the real world. That's why Apple has created The "iPhone Developer University Program", a free program designed by Apple for higher education institutions looking to introduce curriculum for developing iPhone or iPod touch applications.
The unique program promises to provide a wealth of development resources along with sophisticated tools for testing and debugging iPhone applications. Students will have the ability to share their applications with each other through email, or by posting them to a private website for presentation and grading purposes. An idea aimed at creating an alternate pipeline for those dumb apps only a fellow student can love. While higher education institutions will be given the option to submit their applications for distribution in the App Store. A game of chance embraced by educators who love playing Vegas style roulette.
As bonus curriculum, each student will be subjected to an application
rejection simulation which will require every participant to
aggressively work on developing a new app only to have their work
rejected in the eleventh hour. Their rejection will be accompanied by a
simulated Apple email designed to make a student feel worse about all
of the time invested by providing a cordial explanation. The painful
message will ensure young developers that their ideas are great, just a
little too great because their app was blatantly guilty of duplicating
functionality without providing sufficient differentiation.
"Life's a bitch and then you wake up to next to one in the morning," said one educator in a candid reference to his wife of nine years. "At least we won't tell our students their iPhone app was rejected because we had a headache the night before".
Educators ensured that several privileged students will be selected to experience the authentic exhilaration of having their app green lighted into the App Store only to have it yanked days later without any warning after it was already approved. Class professors are prepared to not communicate with students immediately to offer an official response so they can learn early on that they're just another brick in the wall. The key life lesson will be learning perseverance without getting bitter according to one professor.
"Students need to understand how treacherous it is to become a real life developer for iPhone," said university Professor Orlin Reynolds "We intend to break our students hearts while we encourage them to succeed all inside the same semester. That's the real world man! With one app they could make millions. You think that "I Am Rich" developer guy has thrown in the towel? He's probably dreaming up some other useless app that's gonna make him a millionaire. That's America brother."
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The iPhone Developer Program also offers students the chance to make over $1 million a year - just like that student who made Trism.
Posted by: James Katt | September 22, 2008 at 11:54 PM