Re: Cocoa-dev Digest, Vol 4, Issue 1137
Re: Cocoa-dev Digest, Vol 4, Issue 1137
- Subject: Re: Cocoa-dev Digest, Vol 4, Issue 1137
- From: "Erfan Aleemullah" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 19:00:34 -0500
the Stanford CS dept offers this course - Cocoa and Obj C
you can web it up to find the link.
hope this helps.
On 11/8/07, Army Research Lab <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> > I'm a professor at University of Montreal in Canada, and my lab does a
> > fair bit of Cocoa programming for analysis of MRI data.
> >
> > It's become clear that there is much less opportunity for learning Obj-
> > C & Cocoa in most universities than - say - learning Java and C++.
> > Currently our comp-sci department offers courses in the following
> > programming languages: C, C++, Java, VB, C#. McGill University
> > offers courses in C, C++, Scheme, and Java. Concordia University
> > offers courses in C++ and Java, and lists required software for its
> > courses as Eclipse, .NET, Visual Studio, etc.
> >
> > I'm in the early stages of evaluating whether a course on Cocoa and
> > Objective-C would be feasible at my institution, and was wondering
> > what's already out there - specifically:
> >
> > - has anyone taken any kind of secondary (high-school) or post-
> > secondary (i.e. undergrad/bachelors) course in Cocoa programming?
> >
> > - has anyone taken a course on Objective-C that was not specifically
> > about Cocoa?
> >
> > - has anyone heard of such a course anywhere?
> >
> > I am particularly interested in whether any such courses exist in the
> > Montreal area, but of course would also like to hear about them
> > anywhere. Any feedback on the experience (was it useful, was it well
> > attended, how did it come about, what department offered it) would be
> > greatly appreciated. I'm kind of worried that if I suggest it to our
> > comp-sci department, they'll laugh me out of the room.
> >
> > I know there are plenty of ways to learn Cocoa and that most of us on
> > this list just learned it ourselves. However as the Apple platform
> > grows in market share, it seems like less of a crazy idea that a
> > university course on developing under this platform should at least be
> > an option. As far as I can tell there is almost a complete vacuum in
> > Montreal.
>
> Have you looked at what the Big Nerd Ranch provides?
>
> http://www.bignerdranch.com/classes/cocoa_combined.shtml
>
> I haven't taken any of their courses, but "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X"
> has got to be one of my all-time favorite books, and the author, Aaron
> Hillegass, is one of the instructors at the Big Nerd Ranch. Instead of
> creating a class on your own, you may be able to talk them into teaching a
> course.
>
> Good luck,
> Cem Karan
>
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