An event by the Newcastle-Upon-Tyne & District Branch
25th January 2012
Peter Goodliffe
The iPhone, iPad and their iOS relatives are becoming an increasingly popular and important platform. More and more developers are looking into what the platform can offer and how to harness its power for their products.
In this presentation, an experienced iOS developer provides a boot-strap in iPhone development. The talk is an overview of how to get started as an iPhone developer. You will gain an understanding of the platform, the tools, and the core technologies, including:
- The main languages: Objective C/C++
- Using the Xcode IDE, and various deployment/testing tools
- Common iPhone/Mac OS design patterns, idioms, and practices
- Becoming a native: how to “think in iPhone”
- An overview of the libraries and facilities that exist
- Limitations of the development environment.
We’ll see the pros and cons of iPhone development. You will leave with an understanding of how to deploy your applications on the device, and whether it is the right platform for you to target.
Peter Goodliffe
Pete Goodliffe is a software developer, columnist, speaker, and author who never stays at the same place in the software food chain; he’s worked in numerous languages on diverse projects. He also has extensive experience in teaching and mentoring programmers, and writes the regular “Professionalism in Programming” column for ACCU’s C Vu magazine (www.accu.org). Pete’s popular book, Code Craft, is a practical and entertaining investigation of the entire programming persuit. In about 600 pages. No mean feat! Pete enjoys writing excellent, bug-free code, so he can spend more time having fun with his kids. He has a passion for curry and doesn’t wear shoes.
To register for this event please email chair.newcastle@bcs.org. The event is free-of-charge – registration just helps us plan the catering!
The event will be held in room 007 of the Prospect Building of the University of Sunderland Sir Tom Cowie Campus at St. Peter’s. It will start at 19:00 although light refreshments will be available from 18:30.
The Prospect Building is number 41 on the map of the University of Sunderland Campuses.
