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J. Patrick Fenton
Department Chair, CIS; Instructor
Business Division, West Valley College
14000 Fruitvale Avenue, Saratoga CA 95070
 
Telephone: 408 741 2433
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e-mail: pat_fenton@wvm.edu
 
 
 
 

Welcome

Welcome to my instructor's web site at West Valley College. On this web site, you will find links to course syllabi, resources for courses and other materials that may be useful to you, office information, and other links as may be added from time-to-time. If you are a student taking a course I am teaching, please start at the Syllabi page to find the syllabus for your specific course. You then should go to the Resources page to learn about associated tools that pertain to your course. If you are a prospective student, please feel free to inspect the information regarding courses in which you have an interest.

Summer, 2009

This summer, all of my course sections are being taught on-line; the primary access method is via the college's course management system, Angel, for which the log-in page can be reached by clicking on the link in the left sidebar.

iPhone & Mac Developer's Class

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West Valley College is proud to announce that we host an iPhone and Mac Application Programming class, CIS 37.6. This Fall, the course is offered on Wednesday evening. It is our good fortune that the course is being taught by an associate instructor whose job responsibility at Apple includes responsibility for on-line documentation and program code samples posted to the Apple Developer Connection web site.

West Valley College is also pleased to announce that we are an approved Apple iPhone Developer Program University affiliate; in fact, West Valley College was the second higher education institution to offer an iPhone development course, following Stanford University. We are proud to say that we had excellent support from Apple and individuals who were responsible for that initial course, and that our course benefits from their pioneering efforts.

Our classroom is equipped with Apple Mac Pro computing systems, fully configured with all the programming tools required for iPhone and Mac development: XCode, Interface Builder, and the supporting libraries.

The primary development environment for Apple iPhone and Macintosh applications is Cocoa, a programming toolkit built from Objective-C, an open-source superset of the ANSI standard C programming language. If you have had some experience with an object-oriented programming environment, such as Java or C++, you should be comfortable with Cocoa. It is a "fun" programming environment.

 


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