[wplug] [wplug-announce] Tutorial: Objective C Sat 12/17/2005 10am-3pm CMU NSH 1507

[Beth Lynn]

Hello,

This is an announcement for the next wplug meeting which will be held
on December 17, 2005 at 10am to 3pm at Carnegie Mellon University, Newell
Simon Hall 1507. The tutorial topic is Introduction to Objective C. As 
always, this meeting is free and open to the general public. No RSVP 
required.

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Tutorial Topic: Introduction to Objective C
Speakers: Mark Dalrymple of Borkware
Host: Bill Moran
Cohost: Scott Kriebel

Abstract:
You may have heard some of the buzz about new programming languages like 
Java, Python, and Ruby: "dynamic typing", "runtime binding", "object 
oriented", "tastes great", "less filling". What you may not know that 
there has been a C-based language with these features available for the 
last 20 years. Objective-C is a very thin object-oriented wrapper on top 
of regular C. While it is very simple, it gives a tremendous amount of 
power.

Objective-C forms the basis of two mature, powerful, and elegant 
programming toolkits: Cocoa (on Mac OS X), and GnuStep (cross-platform).

This wplug tutorial will cover the basics of Objective-C, Object-oriented 
programming and give you a taste for Cooca and GNUstep. Some C programming 
experience would be good, but not necessary.

Learn more about Mark's books, "Core MacOSX and Unix Programming" and
"Advanced Mac OS X Programming" on his website 
http://www.borkware.com/corebook/

Schedule:
10am doors open to Newell Simon Hall 1507
10am-11am Donut and Coffee Hour
11am-Noon Objective C tutorial part one
12:10-1pm Pizza Lunch
1pm-2pm Objective C tutorial part two
2pm-3pm Social hour
3pm Adjournment

Also of note, James O'Kane is giving away hardware.
His post to wplug-market is here...
http://www.wplug.org/pipermail/wplug-market/2005-December/000084.html
Please direct all questions about James' hardware to jo2y at 
midnightlinux dot com

More information about this meeting will be posted on the following url as
it becomes available...
http://www.wplug.org/meetings/one-meeting?wp_meeting_id=3193

See you There!

Beth Lynn

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January 21 GUM, topic TBD

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