Mobile Orchard Beginning iPhone Programming Community Workshop: Minneapolis, June 13-14
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Synopsis: We’re offering a weekend “Community Edition” Of Mobile Orchard’s Beginning iPhone Programming Workshop — in Minneapolis on Sat June/13 & Sun June/14.
Mobile Orchard Workshops, our series of iPhone programming classes, has shipped. After a successful beta-class last week, we’re lining up locations to teach our Beginning iPhone Programming Workshop.
To kick things off, I’ll be teaching a specially discounted “Community Edition” of the workshop in Minneapolis on Saturday/June 13 and Sunday/June 14. Here’s the pitch:
In only two days, I’ll teach you what you need to know to build polished, ready-to-ship non-game applications. What’s more, you’ll learn the patterns used throughout the SDK so you’ll be able to continue learning on your own after the class has ended.
Designed for Java, .NET, Ruby and Python programmers. No prior iPhone, Mac, Objective-C or Cocoa development experience required.
Get productive fast: before you leave on the first day, you’ll create apps that incorporate location, motion and email. By the end of the class, you’ll build table and navigation style apps (e.g., Mail) with persistent data storage, hybrid web/native apps, apps that consume web service APIs and more.
The class mixes practical project examples with Objective-C and Cocoa-Touch fundamentals like memory management, protocols and delegates, properties and categories.
Small class size, individual attention, experienced instructor.
With me, you know what you’re getting: see the quality of the materials and my ability to communicate technical content in the tutorials I’ve authored. The praise in the comments of these posts and the accolades that follow are a great endorsement.
Praise For The Class
If time is money, this class will save you thousands. — Damon Allison, CodeMorphic, creators of the Public Radio Tuner app
I would never have gotten this far this fast. — Luke Francl, Rail Spikes
Practical to an extreme. If time is money, then this is the class to take: it is the short path to producing viable apps. — Erwin Mazariegos, politicoTracker
Really great class! I left amazed by the concepts that had clicked with me. — Ira Mitchell, Webloggist Inc.
You flattened my learning curve by 2-3 months. — Zan Thrash, independent Grails/Groovy/Java developer
Registration
To register email me. Include your phone number, t-shirt size and a sentence or two about your programming experience. I’ll send you directions to the facility, instructions for setting up your Mac laptop (you’ve got to bring your own! you’ll also need to have enrolled-in/paid-for Apple’s iPhone developer program), and a payment request from PayPal.
Seating is limited. I expect the class to fill up quickly, so be spry.
Have questions? Email or call (612) 423-3694.
If you are new to iPhone, working on it in your spare time, side projects, etc, do yourself a favor and attend this class. Rather than spending countless hours going through all the pieces of the iPhone tools – xcode, obj-c, UIKit, the frameworks, and so on, you’ll spend a day or two and have a working knowledge of it all.
If time is money, this class will save you thousands.
Since the content of these workshops is well worth the $, I thought I’d provide another perspective for those who are still doubting if they should go or not. I can say, as one of Dan’s former students, that he is one of the most enjoyable teachers I’ve had the opportunity to learn from. Dan’s got a knack for teaching, he understands his audience and always works to communicate effectively.
If you are even remotely interested, Dan’s the guy to learn it from.