Category Archives: New Media

Big Nerd Ranch Day 4: My brain is full. Please try again later.

I can’t believe how fast this class is going. I feel like I have months of iPhone programming knowledge behind me already. Topics covered today: the accelerometer (tilting, shaking), phone rotation, working with table views, and editing/adding/deleting data from an app. I worked ahead a little bit and learned how to control the phone’s camera, [...]

Big Nerd Ranch Day 3: There’s an app for that

Check out those icons. I made those apps! They even do things. As you can see, today was a big day. We learned a lot. It feels like Thanksgiving for my brain: I’m completely stuffed, but I’m craving seconds, and I will eat more no matter what. The Quiz application is really simple. There are [...]

Big Nerd Ranch Day 2: Objective-C overload

Today was our second day learning Objective-C. We got much deeper into it today, and the programs in our exercises were getting more and more complex. By dinnertime, we had learned how to tap into services being broadcast from other peoples’ computers and capture the information (iChat, printer sharing, iTunes library sharing, etc). It was [...]

Big Nerd Ranch Day 1: Basics and a wood tick

Today was the first day of class. I woke up and took a bath in my jacuzzi, which is perhaps the best way EVER to wake up in the morning. It was a gorgeous day outside, and I had a pretty awesome view from my room. Breakfast was at 8:30, and there was a nice [...]