What You’ll Learn

Upon completion of Cocoa I, the student will be able to:

• Write complex applications for Mac OS X
• Demonstrate fluency in Objective-C
• Master Interface Builder and Xcode
• Find and understand the online documentation
• Demonstrate experience with the most common classes in the frameworks
• Understand the design patterns used in Cocoa
• Recognize several common idioms of the Cocoa community

Cocoa I SYLLABUS

Section	Contents
Open Cocoa I Bootcamp
Why am I here?	An introduction to Cocoa, the instructor, and the course.
Get started	Build a simple app. Discuss tools, frameworks, and workflow.
Objective-C	Master the Objective-C language in two hours.
Controls	Use the target/action design pattern.
Helper Objects	Use the delegation design pattern.
Controller and Bindings	Use bindings to eliminate a lot of glue code.
Toward a Deeper Understanding of Bindings	A series of experiments that explain what bindings are and how they work.
Undo	Allow your users to undo and redo their edits.
Core Data	Use CoreData with bindings to create full-featured applications easily.
Archiving	Serialize and deserialize object graphs using keyed archiving.
Nib Files and NSWindowController	Discover what "File's Owner" really means.
User defaults	Save and use preferences
Using Notifications	Register for notifications. Post notifications. Handle notifications.
Alerts	Make the user confirm their choices with an alert panel.
Localization Internationalization	Prepare your application for the global marketplace.
Custom views	Do custom drawing. Learn to save your view as a PDF.
Images and Mouse events	Make your custom view deal with mouse events, images, and the open panel.
Responders and Keyboard events	Make your custom view deal with keyboard events.
Fonts and Attributed strings	Draw character strings in your custom view and understand how Mac OS X deals with rich text.
Pasteboards and nil-targeted Actions	Implement copy, cut, and paste. Understand how to take advantage of the responder chain.
Categories	Add a method to an existing class without subclassing.
Drag and Drop	Add drag and drop to your custom views.
NSTimer	Create and use timers.
Sheets	Display sheets on your application's windows.
Formatters	Format a character string and convert it to an object with a custom formatter subclass.
OpenGL and Cocoa	Create and manipulate 3-D views in your Cocoa app.
Core Animation	Learn to use CALayer for animation and custom interfaces.
iOS SDK	A brief introduction to the iOS SDK. This will be the first step in transferring your knowledge of Cocoa to the iPhone or iPad.
Processes	Create Unix processes and communicate with them from a Cocoa application.
Web Services	Use NSURLConnection and NSXMLParser to interact with web services.
Memory Management	Learn to manage your application's memory using ARC and retain counts.
Table Views	Use cell- and view-based table views to display data.
Core Data Relationships	Use Core Data to create more sophisticated object graphs using relationships.
Blocks	Use blocks to make your code more powerful and easier to maintain.
Concurrency	Learn the basics of multithreading in Cocoa.
Instruments	Learn how Instruments can help with analyzing performance and memory issues in your application.
Debugging	Get familiar with the Xcode's graphical debugger as well as the lldb console.
Application Architecture	Learn how to use Model-View-Controller to structure a complex, maintainable Cocoa application.

REQUIREMENTS

The class assumes that the student already knows an object-oriented language like Java or C++. Students are not expected to have any experience programming Macs before.