Re: BigNerdRanch Cocoa Bootcamp
Re: BigNerdRanch Cocoa Bootcamp
- Subject: Re: BigNerdRanch Cocoa Bootcamp
- From: ChrisB <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 17:43:32 -0700
I have been given the opportunity to attend my choice of the Cocoa
Bootcamp in August, or the WWDC. Being new to Cocoa and Mac
development in general I would like a bit of input on which would be
more useful. My background is with PHP and Perl, but have made good
inroads with Cocoa in the last few months of working through a few
projects. Work will foot the bill on this one, but I want to know
where the best use of the resources may be. WWDC has lots of small
sessions that look very interesting, but without the schedule yet it
hard to know and plan what I can and can't expect to hit. I figure
you all here would be the ones to know.
Thanks,
Chris
On May 16, 2006, at 3:33 PM, David Hoerl wrote:
Trygve ,
I went on my own ticket, and I was out of work at the time!.
Here's the deal. if you want to get up to speed fast, and want to
get a really good foundation, then do it. You can plunk around a
lot on your own, learning a bit at a time and slowly getting the
picture, but after an intensive week at hte camp, I went I started
going gangbusters on my application, and after 3 months got a full
time job doing Cocoa/CLI work (through their students listserver).
Before I went I printed out and read (and re-read) Apple's
Objective-C manual (what a great document!) and I got the Kocher
book too for reference (use it occasionally). [The Kocher book is
good since provides instruction on doing CLI Obj-C programs,
something I could find no online instructions for.]
After the week you will "get it" for the most part. You can also
then post "stupid" questions on the students web site without
getting flamed, and you will often get a personal response from
Aaron or one of the other instructors.
BTW, the other instructors are **really** knowledgeable on Cocoa -
you will not believe how fast they will type a solution onto your
Mac when you get help during class.
Again, if you make the decision to jump in the pool, this is the
way to do it. Do as Aaron says - work hard, then get a good nights
sleep. Don't fight the class - go with what you are told, which
often means proceeding before you completely understand the last
exercise. Trust me, it will all fall together in the end.
I had years of C experience on the old Mac, but it didn't help me
all that much get going with Cocoa. This class will push you over
the "hump" in a week, and from then on you will be capable of going
on your own.
David
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