iPhone Boot Camp NYC - Three Day Intensive Workshop

Alex Cone, CEO, CodeFab and lead instructor 
iPhone Boot Camp 

The three day intensive workshop from 10am-5pm will cover the fundamentals and advanced feature of iPhone development, enough material that you should be able to develop your own iPhone application and upload it to the AppStore. The workshop is limited in size and features hands on exercises under the supervision of the instructor and teaching assistants.

Day One: The Basics: - Friday
We will start with live coding of the classic simple "Hello World" application to get an overview of the steps and tools involved. You will build your first iPhone Application. 
Topics include an Introduction to the tools: Mac OS X, Cocoa Touch, XCode, ObjCProcess: Design in IB, Code in XCode, Build, Debug, Optimize,Building Blocks: Foundation and UIKit Frameworks. Other Frameworks, C LibrariesFoundation Framework: Core Classes, Memory ManagementUIKit Framework: Infrastructure For Implementing Graphical Event Driven Applications,UIKit Framework: Views & Controls, Controllers, UIApplication,Application Basics: Bootstrapping, Delegation, Windows, Views, Build "Hello World" Application, Adding Behavior - Programming and Design Patterns, Objective C Basics: Classes, Message Syntax, Objective C 2.0: Properties, Dot Notation, Design Patterns: Delegation Design Patterns: Target-Action, Design Patterns: Model-View-Controller

Day Two: Interface & Data Management - Saturday
Expanding User Interface - View Controllers, Navigation, Tab Bars, View Controller Basics, Navigation Controllers, Tab Bar Controllers, Build a Multi-Page ApplicationTable Views, Table View Controllers, Delegation and Data Sources, Custom Table Cells, Build Hierarchical Data Browsing Applications, Data Management with SQLite, SQLite database management, Reading and writing objects from SQLite, Build SQLite Data Browsing TableView Application,  Searching Data with SQLite, SQLite queries, Keystroke-by-keystroke searching, Results presentation, Enhance SQLite Data Browsing TableView Application with Searching

Day Three: Advanced Features - Sunday
Web Services, Fetching data from remote services, Caching data locally in SQLite, Build Image Search TableView Application, Performance and Progress, Display progress and activity for long running tasks, Thread operations to keep UI responsive, Enhance Image Search TableView Application with threading, Animation and Drawing, Use UIView animation to do flips, slides, fades and resizing, Enhance Image Search TableView Application with splash page animation, Use Core Graphics to draw shapes, Build Random Polygon Application

Additional Topics, Depending on Available Time & Interest, Interacting with the Camera and Photo Library, Basic and Advanced use of the WebView, Getting Location from Core Location, Create a Settings bundle for your application, Access Contacts Info with the AddressBook Framework, Profiling Applications with Instruments

Alex Cone - Lead Developer/Instructor

Alex Cone has over 20 years' experience designing and implementing large-scale, mission critical systems for leading Wall Street firms and has also been working with Cocoa since its infancy when it was still called NeXTstep. When the iPhone SDK came out he brought together all his developers for an in-house "kitchen" on iPhone coding. CodeFab has been doing iPhone consulting ever since Alex is a recognized expert in WebObjects, Web Services, and enterprise scale financial systems and has lectured at Apple and OpenBase developer conferences.

To learn more about both the advanced and basic course, review the syllabus and suggested reading mateiral to prepare for the course or ask questions of the instructor visit our meetup site: iPhone Boot Camp NYC

 

 

 

 

 

Friday, January 16, 2009 at 10:00 AM
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Sunday, January 18, 2009 at 6:00 PM (ET)

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