I went to the Palm Programming class June 21-25 in Long Island at Symbol. (8
hr. a day, 5 days)
Instructor:
Neil Rhodes (author of Palm Programming The Developer's Guide and One Great Instructor)
Topics Covered:
Technical Overview
Getting Acquainted with the Palm OS
Application Design and User Interface
Applications and the Event Loop
Development Tools
Forms and Form Objects
Text Field
Gadgets
Databases
Menus
Memory Manager
Debugging
Symbol SDK
TCP/IP
Conduit Overview
Creating C/C++ Conduits for Windows
Debugging C/C++ Conduits for Windows
Class Format:
2 people per computer. (Windows 95/CodeWarrior/Symbol 1500)
Labs (1 or 2 labs per booklet)
About half the time was lecture with overheads and the other hald was lab
Handouts:
Palm Programming, The Developer's Guide
Palm Computing OS SDK 3.0
All Overhead material in handout booklets. (See topics covered [each topic
was a handout booklet])
(No Palms but we did try)
My Experience:
BS in Computer Science
10 years of programming with VB and before that Clipper.
I had never programmed the palm OS before and it had been a long time since
I had used C.
This is an excellent introduction class. I repeat an introduction class. I
liked the class very much and I learned a lot in it. This class easily
saved me 2-3 man months in the learning curve. But with so many topics you
only get to scratch the surface. It is up to the person to get into the
meat & potatos by either doing more in the LAB portion or by experimenting
on your own time. I would highly recommend this class if you are new to
palm programming or have been playing around for a while and want to know
the 'right' way of doing things. This class will not help the programmer
who has 4 months or more experience programming with the palm (the learning
curve is already over). You need a decent understanding of C (even with my
limit experience it was not hard to understand and follow along). I wish
the class could have been 2 weeks long so that most of the topics covered
could have been dug into more deeply.
Howard Freeman
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>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 1999 8:11 AM
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>Subject: Re: training
>Has anyone on the list been to the Palm sponsored training? If so, would
>anyone care to comment? Was it worth it?
