University of Washington offers professional certification program for Mac and iPhone developers

“The University of Washington’s Professional and Continuing Education program is now offering a professional certification program for iPhone and Mac development. The program, developed in conjunction with the UW Department of Computer Science & Engineering, as well as an advisory board chock full of top-notch Mac developers, consists of three classes, through which you can earn a ‘Certificate in iPhone and Cocoa Development,'” Chris Foresman reports for Ars Technica.

“The program’s advisory board is sort of a who’s who of indie Mac developers, including Brent Simmons (NewsGator), Gus Mueller (Flying Meat), Ken Case (OMNI Group), and Chris Parrish (Rogue Sheep). It also includes Joe Jones from Microsoft’s Mac BU, Joe Heck from Disney Interactive, and Greg Robbins from Google. Toporek, Daniel Pasco, Bill Moorehead, Hal Mueller, Erik Turnquist, and UW Vice Provost David Szatmary round out the board,” Foresman reports. “This board defined the course objectives and topics, designed to prepare someone to develop great iPhone and Mac apps.”

Foresman reports, “The only prerequisite is some experience programming in language such as C, C++, .NET, or Python.”

More info in the full article here.