The iPhone mania is catching up big time. To use a cliché, both for the masses and classes. First, the news that Stanford university will be offering a course on app development and now, barely two months after the iPhone 3G’s launch, we already have a series of books lining up that tells you how to do programming for the iPhone apps. Here are some titles:

First two in our list come from renowned iPhone and data-forensics expert Jonathan Zdziarski

1. iPhone Open Application Development: Write Native Objective-C Applications for the iPhone(Paperback) by Jonathan Zdziarski (Author) $30.83
2. iPhone SDK Application Development: Building Applications for the AppStore (Paperback) by Jonathan Zdziarski (Author) Price: $23.09
3. Professional iPhone and iPod touch Programming: Building Applications for Mobile Safari (Wrox Professional Guides) (Paperback) ($26.39) Richard Wagner (Author)

Some other titles are:

1. The iPhone Developer’s Cookbook: Building Applications with the iPhone SDK (Developer’s Library) (Paperback) by Erica Sadun (Author) $10.20
2. iPhone SDK Development (Paperback) by Bill Dudney (Author), Chris Adamson (Author), Marcel Molina (Author) Price: $25.71

And even a forthcoming one:

1. Beginning iPhone Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK (Beginning) (Paperback) [Forth-coming] by Dave Mark (Author), Jeff LaMarche (Author), Price: $26.39

What’s your take? is it insanity, or hype? Or something else? Visit Amazon to find out more.