Secrets behind thick old walls: Cocoa Bootcamp at the German monastery, January 22-26, 2007

Today, Big Nerd Ranch Europe announced, one of the most highly regarded courses on Cocoa development available in the industry is coming back to Europe: Cocoa Bootcamp instructed by Aaron Hillegass is scheduled for January 22-26, 2007. The distraction-free setting at Kloster Eberbach near Frankfurt, Germany, is an ideal learning environment. It enables students to focusing on learning and mastering application development on Mac OS X. Programmers looking to expand their repertoire into Cocoa development will find Big Nerd Ranch's Cocoa Bootcamp the best training available. Students signing up before December 15, 2006, apply for the early bird price and save Euro 200.

The class has already incorporated CoreData, Xcode 2.3 and Mac OS X 10.4 into the curriculum and covers a spectrum of fundamental topics in Cocoa development such as InterfaceBuilder, OpenGL, controllers and bindings, and more. In five, content-rich days, the student will leave the class knowledgeable in the following key areas amongst others:

* the ability to write complex applications for Mac OS X

* fluency in Objective-C

* mastery of Interface Builder and Xcode

* the ability to find and understand the online documentation

* familiarity with the most common classes in the frameworks

* understanding of the design patterns used in Cocoa

* use Controller and Bindings to eliminate a lot of glue code

* prepare your application for the global marketplace via localization and internationalization

The course requires no previous experience in coding with Cocoa but students attending the bootcamp should be familiar with an object-oriented language like Java or C++. The primary text for the class is "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X" by Aaron Hillegass, the course instructor, with supplemental materials provided via CD with screen shots, slides and additional notes.

"One of the hallmarks of a Big Nerd Ranch class is our total immersion approach to instruction. Just as you would begin an foreign language immersion class by speaking immediately in that language, I like to begin the class with students building their first application in Cocoa," commented instructor and Big Nerd Ranch founder Aaron Hillegass. "Not only does it get the student's feet wet, but it also shows the accessibility of the Cocoa language. Using that as a starting point, the introduction of new and more advanced concepts makes more sense as the week progresses. By the end of the week, participants are adeptly developing complex code."