This training class will cover the principals of programming for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. We will start with fundamental concepts and the overall architecture of iPhone SDK applications and progress to advanced topics. The class is very much hands-on and students will build several full applications over the course of the three day workshop.  This class will run June 16, 17 and 18 2010 from 9:30-5:00.

    Day 1 - The first day will focus on fundamental concepts such as iPhone application architecture, the application sandbox, memory management, handling rotation of the phone, dot notation, the use of Interface Builder, the model-view-controller paradigm and the use of stock user interface elements to interact with the user.  

    Day 2 - The second day we will dive deeply into the use of table views, designing multi-view applications, the responder chain and touch events, as well as designing gestures and hardware features such as the camera and accelerometer.

    Day 3 - The third day opens with debugging, including a live exercise in debugging and then proceeds onto more advanced topics such as data persistence using Core Data and archiving, asynchronous network communications, Gamekit, Core Graphics, network programming, Photo Library, WebView, Core Animation, and Open GL. There is no way to cover all the possible advanced topics in a three-day workshop, so the students get to select the advanced topics that are most important to them.

Students get a copy of the presentation slides, all the exercises (even those for advanced topics not done in class), and all the code from the examples and the exercises.


Jeff LaMarche is a programmer, author, and instructor currently focused on the iPhone SDK used to program for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Jeff was the lead technical author on two iPhone books: Beginning iPhone 3 Development and More iPhone 3 Development, both written with Dave Mark and published by Apress. He's also a contributing author to Learn Cocoa on the Mac, also published by Apress, and maintains one of the most widely read iPhone software development blogs at http://iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com/ Jeff also write articles for Apple's ADC website, teaches iPhone programming workshops, and speaks at several conferences every year. Jeff lives in rural Central New York with his wife, four kids, and a dog.

Attendees must bring a laptop with the iPhone SDK installed. Class will run 9:30 am - 5:00 pm SL Conference Centers at 352 7th Ave (& 30h St.) 16th floor.