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Tonight was the Tuesday Night Cocoa group meet. Half a dozen hairy blokes sitting in the Mac-Sys Ltd offices with instructional PDFs up on a projector and open books in front of them. I’m very keen on this – this is a small cadre of fellahs, some of whom work in Mac-Sys and some of whom don’t, taking the time of an evening to fix issues with their coding projects and leaving with homework which they’ll work on during the week. To a degree I’m envious but I’mr eally glad I was able to help them get this started. |
None of the guys there had any coding experience and yet they’re tackling the iPhone SDK in their spare time. They’ve buzzed me a couple of times in the last week or so with compile errors which they couldn’t debug (simply due to their lack of experience) but tonight they didn’t need to ask once – the previous nights and afternoons they have put into this have started to pay off.
It’s a great example of grassroots doing it for themselves – this is what I love about the current industry – people doing it without asking permission – whether they’re running a code class for the iPhone, running a coffee meetup for tech-heads just because they’re in the right place and the right time or knocking brains together to create a mashup of two useful services – it’s great.
Kudos to them and I can’t wait to see what they’re working on next.
What’s the goal of this? Finished apps? Don’t people have to also know Obj-C and other stuff? I’m finding it hard to believe iPhone dev is so easy even *I* could consider it. No, really, you don’t want me to try. It’d get bloody. And there might even be hostages.
Finished apps of course. Cocoa is a framework which is built for ObjC.
Is it that easy? No 🙂 but it’s not impossible. Developers are humans after all. And all these guys need is some dedication. Maybe not all of them will get it….maybe they will
I would be such a spaz at it. Like at videogames. Yeah, there’d be many hostages taken.