Contacts

AUC Representative: Brian Roberson

AUCDF Coordinator: Michael Antolovich

Coming Events

AUC at CSU 22 Oct 2008

http://csusap.csu.edu.au/~mantolov/AUC/talkOct08.key.zip
http://csusap.csu.edu.au/~mantolov/AUC/talkOct08.ppt

iPhone TechTalk Nov 2008

http://www.auc.edu.au/iPhone+Tech+Talk

CreateWorld Dec 2008

http://www.auc.edu.au/Create+World+2008

REALBasic Workshops Nov/Dec 2008

MacWorld Jan 2009 Conference Scholarships

Reports from Past Events

DevWorld 2008

I attended DevWorld 2008 not knowing what to expect out of it. I knew that there were lectures that were to cater for different levels of programmers however I didn't know if this would help me much as my background in programming was strictly C and C++. I hadn't touched 'XCode' until 2 days before the conference as I had to install it off my leopard disc.

When I attended the conference the first lecture in session 1 did exactly what it said it was going to do, introduce XCode. This lecture was a massive eye opener and the enlightenment didn't stop as this was followed by objective c basics, user interface design, how to use instruments and finally how to develop for the iPhone.

While, the above courses didn't turn me into a professional mac developer overnight, they have given me interest in the field so that now I am teaching myself. I recently purchased a copy of Aaron Hillegass's "Cocoa Programming for MacOSX" and am reading and working through quite quickly.
I am very happy that I attended DevWorld 2008, the amount of knowledge that was gained, and the ability to talk to others that also program for the mac platform was inspirational. I eagerly await the next apple conference.

Note: Found it really funny that basically the only phone that was present at the conference was the iPhone, if you didn't have one you would be embarrassed to take it out.

David Winder

Student Developer Scholarship Winner 2008

Three scholarships were awarded and James Bekkema from the School of Accounting and Computer Scince on the Bathurst Campus was one of the recipients. His project involves the development of an iPhone application called iAquire.

The scholarship is worth about $10,000 over 2 years and includes:

• Loan of a MacBook Pro.
• A 1-year ADC Select Membership, renewable subject to acceptable progress.
• A standard AUC student scholarship to attend Apple's World Wide Developer Conference in 2008.
• A standard AUC student scholarship to attend the inaugural AUC DevWorld Conference in 2008.
• The possibility of participating in the Apple USA internship program in Cupertino, USA, with AUC backing.
• Subject to acceptable progress, attendance at WWDC and the AUC Conference in 2009.

World Wide Developers Conference 2008

Two staff and one studet are attending the WWDC08. Richard Newell (Planning and Audit) has an Allocated staff Scholarship and Michael Antolovich (School of Accounting and Computer Science and AUCDF Coordinator) has a Competitive Scholarship. James Bekkema is attending via his Student Devloper Scholarship.

Michael Antolovich
CSU AUCDF Coordinator