Now you get a chance to sharpen your programming skills for iPhone or iPad application development. The Pragmatic Studio is going to offer their popular course “iPhone/iPad Programming,” twice in coming few months. First time it will be conducted in Santa Clara, CA on August 17-20 and the next session will be held in Chicago, IL on October 25-28, 2010. It’s a hands-on training course for 4 days, where you can learn how to develop iPhone and iPad apps under the guidance of Matt Drance and Daniel Steinberg. The entry is open both for the freshers and the experienced iPhone developers as well.

In this course you can expect to -

·      learn to use the basic tools & APIs in iPhone SDK 4 for the development of iPhone/iPad apps
·      have hands-on coding experience and clear your doubts
·      save time & energy by focusing professionally & exclusively on iPhone/iPad development for all the four days with special guidance from the experts.

The topics include, as mentioned in the course details:
·      Intro to Objective-C
·      Xcode and Interface Builder
·      Cocoa Touch APIs and Design Patterns
·      View Controllers
·      Navigation and Tab Bar Controllers
·      Table Views
·      Keyboard Input
·      Gesture Recognizers
·      Animation
·      Core Data
·      Custom Graphics
·      Performance and Debugging
·      Practical tips, tricks, and techniques used by the experts

The early attendees have reported saying that the course is really helpful as the experts can teach you the techniques required typically. They also point out the challenges related to iOS SDK 4 and the methods to overcome those.