CodeFab LLC» BootCamp

Rebooting the iPhone Training idea…

abc — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:20:21 +0000

I love training. Sure, it is hard work and being “on” for several days straight can be exhausting. For a dedicated multi-tasker like myself, focussing on just one task for three straight days seems very strange. I don’t really mind the travel, though I hate being away from my family. Maybe it is all the generations of teachers in my family cheering me on. I love meeting all the new students, eager to learn the secrets of mobile application development. I love the challenge of walking in to a room full of new faces and forming connections that, with some, will last for years. It’s a rush.

Me And Happy Students In Chicago

For about ten months I held the position of lead trainer and courseware designer for the iPhone Bootcamp. It was a great run – I trained more than 120 students in courses from New York to LA to London, spoke to user groups and hosted parties in a fantastic Victorian mansion in San Francisco at WWDC. I consistently got top ratings and reviews and have a great relationship with many of my students. (Example here on YouTube: Testimonial of Dr. Debbie Berebichez)

Me And Happy Students In Los Angeles

After some deliberation, we at CodeFab decided we could offer a superior training class that we could put our reputation behind. It gives me great pleasure to introduce CodeFab’s iPhone Training Program. I’ve always owned my own training materials, and the arrival of the 3.0 iPhone OS and SDK offered the perfect opportunity to do a rewrite on the materials and an update to the topics covered in the 3-day Intro Class. Additionally we are adding a 1-day Advanced Class that should be of great interest to all of my old students. We are starting with classes in New York City, Chicago and LA, with San Francisco and London in the works for 2010.

Los Angeles iPhone Developer Meetup Group

Nov 11, 2009 iPhone Social Event
Nov 12-14, 2009 Basic Training 3-Day In-Depth Introductory Class (Register at EventBrite)
Nov 15, 2009 Special Ops 1-Day Intense Advanced Class (Register at EventBrite)

New York iPhone Developer Meetup Group

Nov 19, 2009 iPhone Social Event
Nov 21-23, 2009 Basic Training 3-Day In-Depth Introductory Class (Register at EventBrite)
Nov 24, 2009 Special Ops 1-Day Intense Advanced Class (Register at EventBrite)

Chicago iPhone Developer Meetup Group

Dec 10, 2009 iPhone Social Event
Dec 11-13, 2009 Basic Training 3-Day In-Depth Introductory Class (Register at EventBrite)
Dec 14, 2009 Special Ops 1-Day Intense Advanced Class (Register at EventBrite)

…So what happened to the iPhone Boot Camp? By late summer 2009 I came to the conclusion that the iPhone Boot Camp had become an organization I was no longer comfortable being associated with. (feel free to contact me off-line to find out why) Owner Jonathan Sarno and I had different ideas of how training should be done and what our relationship should be, and my attempts to work this out went nowhere.

Ummm, yeah. Sure. What does this accomplish?

Recently I’ve been blocked from all the bootcamp Meetup groups (though videos of me teaching and testimonials about my classes are still used to sell seats).

Regardless, the upshot is that by moving our training to the CodeFab name, we can continue to insure a quality training experience for all. And we can all enjoy me being interviewed late at night in London, after much socializing, with my sunglasses on: TechFuff.tv interviews the iPhone Guru

Los Angeles CodeFab iPhone Special Ops Training

bojan — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:22:39 +0000

Title: Los Angeles CodeFab iPhone Special Ops Training

Location: Los Angeles
Dates: Dec 7
Event Link: Click here
Description:

Topics included depending on time and skill level of the students:

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

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

Lead Instructor: Alex Cone

Los Angeles CodeFab iPhone Basic Training

bojan — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:53:38 +0000

Title: Los Angeles CodeFab iPhone Basic Training

Location: Los Angeles
Dates: Dec 4 – Dec 6
Event Link: Click here
Description:

iPhone Basic Training is a 3 day class that starts with how to become an official Apple iPhone developer and the fundamentals of the iPhone SDK. Students are guided through basic application construction, data management, managing views and navigation, web services and animation. Classes are small and involve hands-on individual and group exercises under the supervision of the instructor.

Lead Instructor: Alex Cone

The workshop includes over two hundred pages of course material specifically written for the workshop by the instructor Alex Cone, refreshments and lunches.