Double the Fun - iPhone SDK Workshops in NYC and Boston

I had so much fun at the last workshop, I've agreed to do two more workshops. I'll be teaching another three-day workshop in New York City from October 2 to October 4 and in Boston from October 6 to October 8. As before, Steve Kochan will be teaching his excellent Objective-C workshop immediately prior to mine, and you can take either class or both as suits your current level of experience.

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Posted in: iPhone SDK,Teaching

August 14 Workshop Update

The August 14 workshop, for which I am one of the two instructors is filling up fast. I'll be teaching the second part of the workshop on iPhone development; Steve Kochan, author of Programming in Objective-C 2.0, will be teaching the first part on Objective-C. You can sign up for either the 3-day iPhone session, the 3-day Objective-C session, or do the combined 6-day workshop.

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August 14 Workshop

The link I previously posted for the August 14 iPhone Boot Camp NYC workshop has changed. I apologize for the inconvenience.

The reason it has changed is because the iPhone Boot Camp is offering another class immediately prior to mine. Steve Kochran, author of Objective-C 2.0, will be holding a 3 day Objective-C workshop on August 11, 12, and 13. The two workshops have been combined into a single event on EventBright:

iPhone Class Signup

The reason that the workshops have been combined is to allow attendees to sign up for both workshops, or for either workshop individually, or for any combination of days that makes sense for the student.

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More on Teaching

Looks like everything is shaping up for the August 14-16 iPhone Boot Camp workshop in New York City. I'll be teaching at the SL Conference center which is at 352 7th avenue. That's just a short walk from Penn Station for those of you who live upstate or in northern New Jersey.

If you're interested, you can sign up here.

The "What you will learn?" section on that page is fairly accurate, although I'm probably going to remove the discussion of SQLite, or at least reduce it in favor of Core Data. Now that we have Core Data, I think you'd be insane to use SQLite directly. There may be other minor tweaks to the syllabus, but I won't be drastically changing the basic flow of the class which is a tried and proven formula at this point.

If you are interested in taking the workshop and have not already signed up for Apple's iPhone SDK program, I would suggest you do so. It's not required for the class, but there may be a few exercises that you won't be able to test because they use hardware-specific features not supported in the simulator. I'll also be available after hours to help you with setting up your certificates and provisioning so you can run programs on your iPhone or iPod Touch, a process that can be a little daunting.

Note: If you are interested in taking this workshop, be aware that there is an early bird pricing option that will expire in seven days. Also, to ensure a good experience, the workshop does have limited capacity. As of this morning, four slots had already been taken.

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What, Me Teach?

Yes, believe it or not, it looks like I will be teaching.

I've agreed to be the instructor for a three-day iPhone Boot Camp NYC Workshop that runs from August 14-16. Future workshops (both in New York and other places) are a possibility if I don't incite a riot or do a really horrible job teaching this one.

I'm actually really excited about doing this. The iPhone Boot Camp program is a great program and I'm looking forward to being a part of it. The ink is still fresh on the deal (I'm not even listed as an instructor on their web page yet), so I don't have many details right now, but I can tell you that this particular workshop is targeted at new iPhone developers who do have some basic programming knowledge (or, basically, the same people that our book is targeted at). So, if you live in or near the NYC Metro area and are interested in becoming an iPhone developer, I'd love to have you in my workshop.

If things work out well, I'm hoping to convince them to offer a more advanced workshop or maybe even an OpenGL / Gaming workshop in the future. Let me know if you're interested in either of those topics and, if so, where you live.

About the only other thing I know at this point is that I will be tweaking the syllabus that's on their website just a bit to update it for 3.0 and to match my own teaching style. Other than that, details will be forthcoming once I know them.

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Posted in: Cocoa Touch,iPhone SDK,Teaching,tutorials