Re: University courses in Cocoa/Objective-C?
Re: University courses in Cocoa/Objective-C?
- Subject: Re: University courses in Cocoa/Objective-C?
- From: Kok-Yong Tan <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 21:48:08 -0500
On Nov 8, 2007, at 14:49, Rick Hoge wrote:
Hi -
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.
Cheers,
Rick Hoge
What about Big Nerd Ranch in the "has anyone heard of such a course
anywhere" category: <http://www.bignerdranch.com>? They do Cocoa
Bootcamps and even throw Objective-C in with it!
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