[AUC-News] Cocoa Workshop - Sydney - 10-12 February 2009

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** Cocoa Workshop **

The Apple University Consortium is pleased to announce it is offering  
20 Scholarships to its annual AUC Cocoa Workshop to be held at the  
UNSW Kensington campus from the 10 – 12 February 2009.

The AUC’s Cocoa Workshop is aimed to develop an understanding and  
appreciation of Cocoa and other Mac OS X development technologies in  
students (and interested staff) who have an interest on programming on  
Mac OS X or the iPhone. Another objective of this event is to provide  
means for people of like minds to meet and interact with one another.

* What is Cocoa?

Cocoa is an object-oriented application environment designed  
specifically for developing Mac OS X and iPhone native applications.  
The Cocoa frameworks include a complete set of classes, and for  
developers starting new Mac OS X-only projects, Cocoa provides the  
fastest way to full-featured, extensible, and maintainable  
applications. You can bring applications from UNIX and other platforms  
to Mac OS X and the iPhone quickly by using Cocoa to build state-of- 
the-art user interfaces while retaining most existing core code.

* Who should attend?

The workshop is aimed specifically at students who study computing  
science, computer engineering, information technology, mathematics or  
related disciplines and/or have an interest in developing software for  
computers. Staff from member Universities are also welcome to attend.  
It is expected that those who attend will have some computer  
programming experience using languages like but not limited to Java  
and C++. It is not expected that students have experience programming  
on the Mac OS X platform previously.

More information about the workshop and an application form is  
available on the AUC web site at:
<http://www.auc.edu.au/Cocoa+Workshops>

Applications close on 14 January 2009.