Re: Obj-C/Cocoa in education
Re: Obj-C/Cocoa in education
- Subject: Re: Obj-C/Cocoa in education
- From: Brent Gulanowski <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 18:47:07 -0500
On Sunday, January 27, 2002, at 09:36 AM, Michael P. Rogers wrote:
Not only should Apple be pushing Cocoa to people who wouldn't have
normally considered programming, they should be pushing it like MAD at
students (like me). Nobody in my university knows wtf Cocoa or
Objective-C is (granted it's a small university).
No excuse! We're offering a course in Objective-C and Cocoa, and
Millikin is only about 2200 students. We're using Aaron Hillegass's
book, and having a very good time :-) Unfortunately, the majority of
CS professors don't know anything at all about Macintosh in general,
let alone Mac OS X. Their loss, of course.
Apple is trying to correct this, somewhat; they recently sent ACM
(Association of Computing Machinery) advisors a developer's kit that
included the Learning Cocoa book. They ought to send it out again,
with Hillegass' opus.
I just bought that very book; it is terrific, and I badly envy the
students at your school.
Any advice for promoting Cocoa as a suitable subject area for CS?
Brent