Boost your iPhone Apps with iPhone Bootcamp in Frankfurt, December 8-12, 2008

Big Nerd Ranch Europe, premier provider of week-long, intensive training classes for programmers, web developers and system administrators, announces an additional new date for its leading iPhone Bootcamp. December 8-12, 2008 is the next opportunity to learn iPhone development from scratch at the distraction free environment of Kloster Eberbach, near Frankfurt, Germany.

After the first European iPhone Bootcamp sold out within just weeks after being scheduled, Big Nerd Ranch Europe meets the high demand with two new iPhone training classes. The second new class date is February 9-13, 2009.

Students signing up at least five weeks before the class starts apply for the early bird price and save Euro 200.

Since its release in 2007 the iPhone created an immense interest in the new mobile device and a desire on the part of innovative developers and companies to begin creating applications for it. With the new iPhone G3 and recent software updates the number of applications for the iPhone exploded. iPhone development is getting even more exciting, now, that Apple decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement and let developers share their knowledge and experience.

iPhone Bootcamp instructor Alexander von Below has honed his skills as a Mac software engineer, developer and trainer in over twenty years. His work experience as a senior developer inspired him to develop his consulting work for various companies in the Mac industrie. He wastes no time immersing students in iPhone training.

The course requires no previous experience in coding in Objective-C or for the Mac or the iPhone, but students attending the bootcamp should be familiar with C and an object-oriented language like Java or C++. The class is taught on the latest releases of Mac OS X and Xcode.

After class, novice students will understand the integral components of iPhone development and emerge fully skilled in the ability to develop complex applications for the iPhone and iPod touch. Key topics include, but are not limited to:

• Drawing with Quartz and OpenGL and making graphics move with Core Animation (CALayer)
• Dealing with multi-touch events, displaying text, and getting input from the keyboard
• Using toolbars and view controllers to create applications with multiple views
• Accessing telephony and web services, and accessing the camera function
• Using the accelerometer, dealing with orientation, and using Core Location to determine user location
• Getting and creating contacts and events for contacts and the calendar
• Using TableView to create custom table view cells and SQLite to store and retrieve data

"For companies and developers to retain a competitive edge, leveraging the power of iPhone is no longer a future opportunity, it is an immediate priority," said Aaron Hillegass, Big Nerd Ranch founder. "The development industry has always been fast-paced, but iPhone pushes it into warp-speed. As iPhone's market grows domestically and internationally and as the exclusivity contract with AT & T in US markets comes to a close, programmers will be expected to be as fluent in Cocoa-touch as they once were in C. And the Big Nerd Ranch will give them the training they need to get there."