Feb 11, 2009

iPhone for Teachers

I really hope this means that someday (soon) the University will buy me an iPhone or at least give me a really good discount. Otherwise this email was just mean and cruel.

iPhone Development for Education
Wed, Feb 18 2009 - 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM Central
Join Apple for an engaging introduction to the tools and techniques
used for building native and web-based iPhone applications.

The iPhone Development for Education Seminar will be presented by
Steve Hayman, a National Consulting Engineer with Apple's Education
Team based in Toronto. Steve specializes in Apple's developer tools
and UNIX core. Prior to Apple, Steve worked with that other Steve at
NeXT Computer, where he first fell in love with the combination of
powerful object-oriented development tools and a great Unix core;
before that he was Network Manager at Indiana University; before
that he picked up an M.Math at Waterloo, and before that he had a
summer job painting construction equipment. Steve is delighted that
Apple's blend of Unix and OO is reaching many more users than NeXT's
tools ever did, and although he enjoys a good "vi vs. emacs"
argument as much as any Unix geek, he's even more intrigued with
what you can do with strong OO tools and libraries. Steve is
particularly fond of the WebKit open source objects included in Mac
OS X 10.5 and has built and thrown away dozens of different web
browsers as a result.

2 comments:

Zog said...

Oh, wow, I would love to go to that. I've dabbled a little bit in iPhone development and I'd love to hear what he has to say.

Vi forever. :)

G said...

It's actually at UofI the rest of the email was a vague reference to our current purchasing negotiations with iPhone. I'd never thought about getting one for teaching purposes.