I wrote the following blog while I was in Wuhan, China, during my vacation. For some reason, I could not access to my blogger there. I had to write my blogs in my sina blog. Now I copy the blog back to my programming blog.
I had to write my English blog at Sina blog web site since the Blogger is not accessible, during my visit to my extended family in Beijing and Wuhan. Fortunately, I have a Sina blog account so that I can continue to write my blog. I'll copy this blog to my Blogger when I get back.
Before I left for China, I found that iOS training by Stanford
University(SU) was released. This is fall session course, started
being published in Nov 2012. SU started to provide iPhone training
courses several years ago, and I watched all the past iPhone
training courses. I enjoy watching those courses very much. Even
the course is an entry program for developers about iPhone
application and Objective-C, the content has been kept up with the
update of iOS. Based on the techniques and knowledge I learned from
the course, I started my iPhone application development. I have to
say that SU's course helps me a lot.
I think that SU's training course was one of a few educational
programs for iPhone development and Obective-C. I greatly
appreciate the updated content of the course along with the iOS
progress. This time, the SU's iOS course has so many new contents
about iOS 5. This course is quite different from the previous ones.
For example, there is no more memory management by keeping track of
reference counts. The XCODE is based on the new version of XCODE 4.
The storyboard is included in the course as well. I think this
course is a must-watch program for every iPhone and iPad
developer.
I like the instructor, Paul Hegarty, very much. He started to
teach this course last year. In this training, during the date
Steve Jobs passed away, he revealed that he was in part of Steve
Jobs' NeXT computer team in the early years. Later on he moved to
University to teach computer courses. He is very knowledgable in
Mac and iOS development.
I have downloaded all available classes before my leave from
iTunes U. Now (Jan 7, 2012) I finished about 7 classes.
It seems that all those courses are available in iTunes U in
China. The iTunes U course is in two formats: one in SD and another
in HD. There is big difference in size. HD, in hight definition,
takes a lot of spaces and thence takes too long time to download.
For me, it is just a course to learn new things, and most likely I
would not watch it again. Therefore, I would recommend to download
the SD serials instead. Search for "iPhone" in iTunes to find SD
serials.
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