CocoaI

If you need to learn to develop applications for Mac OS X, Cocoa I Bootcamp is the absolute best Cocoa training available. The class is intensive, and you should be prepared to work hard.

The class is taught on Mac OS X 10.6, Xcode 3, and Objective-C 2.

This course can be taught at your company site. We have taught it for Apple, Intuit, Google, AutoDesk, and many other smaller companies.

Upcoming Classes

Date	Instructor	Price	Status	Venue
Oct 18 - Oct 22	Scott Ritchie	€2800	Register Now!	Frankfurt, Germany

What You’ll Learn

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

Cocoa I Bootcamp

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

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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	In 10.3, Apple has introduced a new technique that eliminates 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	Add an undo menu item to your application.
Core Data	Use CoreData with bindings to create full-featured applications easily.
Archiving	Serialize and deserialize object graphs. (Using keyed archiving.)
Advanced CoreData	Use advanced CoreData features like unsupported datatypes, inheritance, and validation.
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.
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.
Pasteboards and nil-targeted Actions	Implement copy, cut, and paste.
Categories	Add a method to an existing class.
Drag and Drop	Add drag and drop to your custom views.
NSTimer	Create and use timers.
Sheets	Attach sheets to your window.
Formatters	Format a character string and convert it to another type with a custom formatter subclass.
Printing	Add printing to your application. Deal with pagination.
OpenGL and Cocoa	Create and manipulate 3-D views in your Cocoa app.
Core Animation	How to use CALayer
iPhone SDK	A brief introduction to the iPhone SDK. This will be the first step in transferring your knowledge of Cocoa to the iPhone
Processes	Create Unix processes and communicate with them from a Cocoa application.
Garbage Collection	A deeper look at how the garbage collector figures out what to reclaim
Web Services	How to use Web Services via NSURLConnection and NSXMLDocument

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.