Stanford Offers Cocoa Class

An anonymous reader writes "Back in the early 90's Stanford University offered a class on Objective-C for students interested in writing applications for NeXTSTEP. After a long hiatus it appears that class will be offered again as CS193E, 'Object-oriented User Interface Programming.' It will be covering the Apple development tools, Objective-C, Foundation and AppKit, and Quartz. Any other schools out there planning or already offering Objective-C courses?"

Comments

Others? Yes!

[Anonymous Coward]

It's called CS 699 - Independent Study.

Re:Strange

[quandrum]

It's "too different" from C. I hear this all the time when talking about Obj-C. The object syntax using brackets instead of dots is apparently uncomprehendable to your average programmer.

Or rather, the 10 minutes it takes to get used to the syntax is too grand to the lazy programmer.

Re:Why?

[GlassHeart]

Would it not be better to teach the students HOW to program well, and let them implement the concepts in the language of their choice?

You are right, but have you tried putting that on a resume?

Languages: None, but I program well and can implement the concepts in a language of my choice

That's the unfortunate fact of life graduates will have to cope with, so every school must cater to the Real World as well, to some degree.

Original headline

[transient]

Headline should've been:

[[Stanford alloc] init]

;-)

Re:Original headline

[clarkcox3]

You should probably put something like that in a factory method:

+(id)stanford
{
return [[[self alloc] init] autorelease];
}

Then you can just call:

[Stanford stanford]

Re:Original headline

[transient]

Yeah but this thread doesn't have an autorelease pool.

University of Yo Yo Dyne

[Anonymous Coward]

in Grovers Mill N.J. is offering courses in reality distortion fields, does that count?

Re:Why? Don't Know

[McAddress]

IANATE (I am not a troll either). I wrote a java implementation of the file browser (Finder), and I am trying to use it to copy a 17.6MB files from my desktop to my home folder, and I have been sitting here for 20 minutes and its nowhere near complete. I could do the same thing on my 533 MHz Celeron in under a minute.