A days training/exposure to iPhone development

Question

Hi,
I would like to organise a day's training/exposure to how to develop apps for the iPhone with our internal development team, 9 people. This would be a completely different experience for them; living most of their lives in Visual Studio.
Ideally, I'd like it to be a fun/interesting experience of another platform etc, preferably in an interesting environment - maybe even an Apple Store.
Any ideas who would be able to run something like this in the UK?
Message was edited by: rachellawson

Answer 1

Hi Rzarector, and welcome to the Dev Forum!
Although you already have your XML parser, you might want to take a look at the NSXMLParser class, since it will handle all of the network communication for you (see [initWithContentsOfURL:|http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation /Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSXMLParserClass/Reference/Reference.html#//appleref/doc/uid/20001984-BAJCCBCH]). If you don't want to use that class, you might look over the URL Loading System Programming Guide and become familiar with some of the referenced classes, e.g. [NSURLRequest|http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/Cocoa/Ref erence/Foundation/Classes/NSURLRequestClass/Reference/Reference.html#//appleref/occ/cl/NSURLRequest]. The easiest way to find tutorials is to include one of the relevant class names in your search engine keys; e.g. Google for "NSURLResponse tutorial".
To substitute user text for the vars in your url, you could use a method such as [stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:withString:|http://developer.apple.com/ip hone/library/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSStringClass/Reference/NSString.html#//appleref/occ/instm/NSString/stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:withString:]. For example, say you designate the object at textField1 as the field where the user is to enter var1:
NSString *template = @"http://foo.com?var1=12345&var2=09876&var3=6445463";
NSString *var1 = textField1.text;
NSString *template1 = [template stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"var1" withString:var1];
// similarly process var2 and var3 here ...
NSString *template3 = [template2 stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"var3" withString:var3];
NSURL *myURL = [[NSURL alloc] initWithString:template3];
// do something with myURL here
[myURL release];
Of course I can't recommend building a url from raw user input, but that's a topic for another day.
- Ray