The Xcode RAD environment and news from WWDC'05.
Robert Goldsmith, School of Computer Science
Date and time: Tuesday 21st June 2005 at 15:00
Location: UG40, School of Computer Science
Host: Pascal Honore
OSX comes with Xcode and the Cocoa frameworks, a powerful combination that allows for easy and rapid development of software in Objective C++ and Java. The Cocoa frameworks are powerful enough to allow you to develop quite fully featured applications without writing a single line of code (building on classic design philosophies such as Model View Controller and Entity Relationship graphs) leaving you the time to concentrate on what you really want to develop. In this talk, I will show some of the advanced capabilities of Xcode and the Cocoa frameworks, including Core Data (for automated persistence of your data) and Bindings (for automated control of your interfaces).
Given the recent announcements from Apple and having recently returned from Apple's World Wide Developer Conference in San Francisco, I also hope to dedicate the end of my talk timeslot to a quick rundown of where Apple is heading and what it means for all of us.