iOS Programming (iPhone/iPad) for Programmers Training Course

Duration

35 hours (usually 5 days including breaks)

Requirements

  • Previous development experience

Overview

All the skills and knowledge you need to make your first iPhone/iPad application using the latest iOS SDK and tools.

Course Outline

The environment

The iPhone Developer program and the tools (SDK, Xcode, IB, the iPhone/iPad simulator)

The language

  • Essential Objective-C
  • Using existing Cocoa classes and writing your own
  • The essential patterns

Performance and debugging

  • Memory management
  • Performance improvements
  • Debugging and troubleshooting
  • Multitasking
  • Multithreading essential

The User Experience

  • The application templates
  • The UI Controls
  • Creating different multi-view applications
  • The different gestures
  • UX rules and guidelines

Data management

  • Saving state
  • SQLite
  • XML
  • Core Data
  • Settings

Multimedia control and some special features

  • The camera API
  • The image picker
  • Playing and recording video
  • Playing and recording audio
  • The accelerometer
  • The proximity sensor
  • Notifications and the Event Kit
  • Quick intro on how to make 2D and 3D animations

Making location aware applications

  • Using core location

Targets and application types

  • iPhone vs iPad development
  • Universal applications
  • Intro to Web applications with HTML5 and CSS3
  • Interacting with a service
  • Hybrid applications

Delivering it to the public

  • Understanding iAd
  • Releasing to the App Store – The short path

Apache Kafka for Python Programmers Training Course

Duration

7 hours (usually 1 day including breaks)

Requirements

  • Experience with Python programming language
  • Familiarity with stream-processing platforms

Audience

  • Data engineers
  • Data scientists
  • Programmers

Overview

Apache Kafka is an open-source stream-processing platform that provides a fast, reliable, and low-latency platform for handling real-time data analytics. Apache Kafka can be integrated with available programming languages such as Python.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at data engineers, data scientists, and programmers who wish to use Apache Kafka features in data streaming with Python.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to use Apache Kafka to monitor and manage conditions in continuous data streams using Python programming.

Format of the Course

  • Interactive lecture and discussion.
  • Lots of exercises and practice.
  • Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

  • To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Course Outline

Introduction

Overview of Apache Kafka Features and Architecture for Python

  • Core APIs (producer, consumer, streams, connector)
  • Concepts and uses

Accessing Kafka in Python

  • Available Python libraries for use
  • Compression formats supported

Installing Apache Kafka

  • Computer installation
  • Virtual private server and virtual machine installation

Starting Kafka Broker Server

  • Reading and editing using an IDE (Integrated Development Environment)
  • Running Zookeeper
  • Logs folder

Creating a Kafka Topic

  • Connecting to a Kafka cluster
  • Reading topic details

Sending Messages Using Producers

  • Initiating a producer
  • Examining incoming messages
  • Running multiple producers

Consuming Messages

  • Kafka Console Consumer
  • Running multiple consumers

Troubleshooting

Summary and Conclusion