(Overgenomen van de blog van Lieven Dekeyser)
Over the past few months, quite a few people have started to show interest in learning Cocoa development. Most of these people are not traditional Mac developers, but the success of the iPhone has captured their imagination. “Oh it’d be cool if I could write something that could do … and I could always have with me”.
Well, good news for those that want to get started: I’ll be giving a 4-part introduction to Cocoa development in november and december, in cooperation with Zeus, the computer science workgroup at Ghent University. The sessions will be held in the S9 building of the Sterre campus of Ghent University, Belgium and will probably be in Dutch (though English is also an option if someone turns up that doesn’t understand Dutch).
The best of all? This introduction is – in true Zeus spirit – completely free!
The dates and topics for the 4 sessions (which start at 8pm) are:
05/11/2009: Objective-C, memory management and the Foundation framework
19/11/2009: Simple applications using AppKit and Interface Builder
03/12/2009: Cocoa tricks (key-value coding, animations,…)
10/12/2009: iPhone development
The goal of these sessions is not to give a complete Cocoa course, but rather to get you started, because the only way to really learn something is by actually doing it. So come and have a listen, try things out at home and bring your questions to the next session!
Hope to see you there!
Slides en codevoorbeelden kunnen teruggevonden worden op planetreesoftware.com/cocoadevintro/ na elke les.
Activiteit:
- donderdag 5 november 2009 om 20:00
- donderdag 19 november 2009 om 20:00
- donderdag 3 december 2009 om 20:00
- donderdag 10 december 2009 om 20:00
zondag 1 november 2009 om 14:07
[...] if I could write something that could do … and I could always have with me”. (taken from the Zeus WPI Website) Over the past few months, quite a few people have started to show interest in learning Cocoa [...]
maandag 2 november 2009 om 18:25
How much knowledge do we have to have in order to be able to follow this activity ?
I’m intrested in the subject but haven’t had any objective-C … i know Java ( 1st year irw)
maandag 2 november 2009 om 18:31
It depends on how good your knowledge of Java is. Objective-C will be explained in the first lesson, so if you have a bit of Java experience, you’ll be just fine.
Anyway, just try the first lesson and you’ll know if it’s interesting to you
maandag 2 november 2009 om 19:29
Any programming experience is just fine.
maandag 2 november 2009 om 22:47
Keep in mind that for the “and I could always have with me”-part you have to pay Apple €79 per year to get a certificate (unless you jailbreak)…
PS: hi Lieven
woensdag 4 november 2009 om 00:02
Hi,
I passed this information along to the CocoaHeads Belgium group and apparently about 5 of us will probably be joining in as well.
Regards,
Stefaan
woensdag 4 november 2009 om 18:11
Code signing is indeed a pain in the ass and I hope one day there will be legal alternative distribution mechanisms, but unfortunately Apple’s sticking hard to its “try to do the best thing for 90% of your users” principle..
For us developers, the App Store is hell, for users, it’s heaven…
PS: Hi Jonas!
donderdag 19 november 2009 om 10:25
Hi,
Can the slides be put online?
Thanks!
donderdag 19 november 2009 om 10:30
The slides of the first lesson can be found at http://planetreesoftware.com/cocoadevintro/