CocoaII

So you have read Aaron Hillegass's book Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, or perhaps you have taken the Big Nerd Ranch Cocoa I Bootcamp. Are you ready to take your coding to the next level?

The newly developed Cocoa II Bootcamp teaches you the secrets of the Cocoa text system; how to make an application a good OS X citizen by supporting Spotlight, Quick Look and AppleScript; assist the user with help books and accessibility features; deliver an application as a package and provide automatic updates; improve your coding with Unit Tests; Cocoa graphics and animations and many more advanced techniques.

This course can be taught at your company site, and we have already taught it for AOL.

What You’ll Learn

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

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Introduction to the class	A brief discussion about the call and what you will learn.
Implementing text editing	How to programmatically use the Cocoa text system to implement on-demand editing of text in a custom view.
Low-level management of data files	Use NSHandle to customize the structure of an application's data file.
Spotlight support	Build a Spotlight plug-in to support advanced OS X searches.
Quick Look support	Build a Quick Look plugin to allow users to see the content of a data file without launching the application.
AppleScript support	Make a Cocoa application scriptable and create custom AppleScript verbs.
Apple Help	Author an Apple Help book
Delivering applications with Package Maker	Create a package for installing an application along with its plug-ins and learn about installation scripts.
Application updates	Use the Sparkle framework to provide automatic updates for an application.
Using C++ from Cocoa	Learn how to use C++ code in a Cocoa application.
Unit Testing	Improve your code by using independent or dependent unit tests.
Image Drawing details	Use Core Graphics, Core Image, and Core Animation to draw graphics
Cocoa/OpenGL tricks	Build an application that renders OpenGL graphics
Implementing custom GUI controls	Implement a 2-dimensional slider control
Cocoa animations	More Core Animation details
Accessibility	Use the NSAccessibility Protocol and add accessibility support to a custom control.
Interface Builder plug-ins	Create an Interface Builder plugin to add a custom control to the IB palette.
NSScrollView details	NSScrollView is a complex object. Learn how to subclass adn get finer control.
Analyzing Cocoa code with LLVM/CLANG	LLVM/CLANG may eventually replace GCC. Start using it now.
Preference Panes	Add a custom page to the System Preferences
Menu Bar Status Item	Create custom status items in the menu bar
Distributed Objects	Use Distributed Objects for interprocess communication

Requirements

Students are expected to be comfortable with Objective-C and the Cocoa framework to the level described in the Cocoa I Bootcamp syllabus.