Any chance that WO training material is in English, and available outside Switzerland?
On Dec 19, 2011, at 2:17 PM, Markus Ruggiero wrote: > This is in response to an other thread (WOLips on Windows). I think it > deserves its own one. List mom, please let me know if this is inappropriate. > > On 19.12.2011, at 17:27, Kevin Spake wrote: > >> If I may ask, what sort of WO training do you provide? You can contact me >> off list if you prefer. >> >> Thanks. >> > > Hi Kevin, > > On list is ok for me (hope the listers do not mind) > > I work as part time teacher at a private school here in Switzerland. We > provide formal education as "Application Developer" for folks that have > already had formal training for a profession but due to various reasons > (often medical) must be re-trained to a new profession. The whole thing is 1 > year full time school then 1 year full time work. They finish with an > official Swiss Federal Diploma. During the first year the students have to > take ~33 modules, most of them 40 lessons, some 80 lessons. Each such module > covers one topic (DB design, structured programming, OO programming, > HTML/CSS, and many many others) and each ends with an exam. I have been doing > this for the last 10 years on and off and I also have written several course > books. These have been officially published and are available in book stores. > Recently I have co-authored a book about OO Development covering the whole > lifecycle from Analysis to Deployment. In there I have covered the > development part with WebObjects. > One of the modules im currently teaching is "Implementing an OO multi-user DB > app". The general topics of each such module is given by federal regulations > but it is up to the school/teacher how these are presented. I am teaching > this module using WebObjects. The first part (40 lessons) will follow loosely > the old Programming WebObjects 1 (Apple Stuff from 2001, adapted to the new > tools etc), whereas the second part (again 40 lessons) will then focus on > individual small projects and the methodology and concepts of OOA/OOD. > > Why do I do this (using that "dead" thing called WebObjects) in teaching? > Pretty simple: it is there, it works perfectly, it is a great thing to work > with, it is also a counter weight to J2EE, and I want to promote WO. Bring > WO to schools and when the students later on get their jobs they might > eventually mention what they have learned - spread the word! > > Many many moons ago (December 2001) I attended an official Apple Train the > Trainer for PWO1 and have been teaching that course several times in the > past. Long since no WO teaching but have been working with WO on many > projects during the last 10 years. I am currently quite involved with a large > customer where I maintain several (rather old) WO-Apps and am currently > massively extending an existing D2W app. Big fun and a lot to discover every > day. > > ---markus--- > > >> >> On Dec 19, 2011, at 3:02 AM, Markus Ruggiero wrote: >>> >>> Need this for teaching WO (yeah!). Many folks come with their Macs but not >>> everyone does. Some students have only Win notebooks. So I must be able to >>> have development on Windows as well. >>> >>> Thanks for any help >>> ---markus--- _______________________________________________ >>> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. >>> Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) >>> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >>> http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/sparky005s%40yahoo.com >>> >>> This email sent to [email protected] >> >> _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
