Big Nerd Ranch has a reputation for mind-blowingly excellent Cocoa and iPhone training. A reputation like this is difficult to maintain. In particular, our students expect our instructors to be experienced, friendly, knowledgeable, articulate, and committed.

For the last seven years, I have taught every single Cocoa class that has ever been offered at Big Nerd Ranch. For a few years, I have felt that only one other person who could possibly fill my shoes at the front of the classroom, and he worked for Apple.

Today, he works for Big Nerd Ranch.

Scott Ritchie started at NeXT in 1990. He has spent the last 20 years helping developers learn to use Objective-C and Cocoa, both as a trainer and as an engineer on Apple’s Developer Technical Support team.

I’ve known Scott for fifteen years, and I must admit that he knows Cocoa better than I do. And he knows iPhone development better than anyone. He is passionate about teaching and committed to making our students into effective and stylish Cocoa programmers. I am proud to announce that he will be teaching the Cocoa Bootcamp and the iPhone Bootcamp for us.

If you would like Scott Ritchie to teach a Cocoa or iPhone Dev class at your company, please contact Scott Newman at 813.749.6615 so we can get you on the calendar.