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Stanford Offers Cocoa Class

Posted by pudge on from the mmmm-cocoa dept.

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?"

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  1. Why? by altp · · Score: 1, Troll

    Why is there a class teaching a specific language and development tools?

    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? Perhaps doing a "Language of your choice, but you can't use the same language twice" kinda thing.

    They would learn OOP, learn how to learn another language, and perhaps actually understand how an algorithm works instead of coping it from the text book in the language that the book goes over.