Objective-C 2.0 is a programming language which adds object-oriented capabilities to the C language, and is used primarily on Mac & iPhone.

‘Case you hadn’t noticed, Objective-C iPhone dev is totally da bomb right now; the cool kids are right on it, and if you wanna be piff like shizzle too then you need to get in now! Don’t be gash; come along to FlashBrighton next Tuesday, cotch down with our Objective-C co-dees and you’ll be stunting your iPhone skills in no time. Just totally sick!

We’ve got a real hench in Sussex Uni’s Peter Passaro to show you how it’s done. Peter is an Objective-C fiend, he’s been caning it for years. He’ll introduce you to bare Mac dev, including the basics of Objective-C, working in the XCode IDE, and a general introduction to the Cocoa Frameworks (AppKit, UIKit, etc.) You can follow along on your Mac by installing the Apple Dev Tools beforehand. Bred, don’t get vexed; unass yo-self, get ballin’ with Peter, and it’ll be real nice up!

It’s not necessary but Peter also recommends downloading F-Script too; an oudish script language that allows to you explore any program written with Cocoa libraries and even interact with them and inject code whilst they’re running; F-Script is a nang teaching tool and Mac debugger.

Don’t get all antwacky now and turn into a whole wall full of teenagers spitting needlessly; sign up on Upcoming and be seen at FlashBrighton next Tuesday instead and you’ll rolling out Objective-C big time. Get me?

Rago!

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Dictionary of teenage slang

Antwacky: unstylish
Ballin: doing well
Bare: a lot of
Bred: brother, kin
Cane: to do to excess
Co-dee: friend
Cotch down: hang out
Da bomb: excellent
Fiend: addict
Gash: unpleasant, ugly
Hench: tough boy
Jamming: hanging around
Nang: excellent
Nice up: relaxed
Oudish: very good
Piff: good
Rago: ok
Seen: cool
Shizzle: someone you worship
Sick: cool, good
Stunting: showing off
Unass: relinquish control
Vexed: stressed

If you feel like our sessions have been getting so geeky that it just sounds like white noise, then we’ve got just the thing for you – an interactive workshop to get you up to speed in Illustrator!

So bring along your laptop, along with an install of Illustrator, and our very own Yan will show you :

• Pen technique (fundamental to confidence in Illustrator)
• Applying fills and strokes
• Gradients
• Patterns
• Transformations (symmetry, building a cog wheel)
• Using layers
• Type/type on paths
• Masks
• Using Pathfinders
• Offset paths
• Symbols
• Using Illustrator with Flash
• Using Illustrator with Flex

7pm back at our usual venue, the Werks.

Spaces are limited so please sign up on upcoming to ensure your place.

NEXT WEEK – developing software on the Mac and iPhone with Objective C

Comrades, the time is come when we must break down the barriers that hold us back and reclaim power for ourselves. Respect for authority is merely an opium for the people, our emancipation will only come when we, the Flash workers, finally gain control of the means of production. We must rise up now and that is why we here at FlashBrighton have brought out a powerful weapon to strike back at the bourgeoisie in the form of Projects Night VII: an assembly for the Flash proletariat to mass and exchange subversive tactics and ideas.

Apart we are defenseless, together we have power. Projects Night VII will unite us by the sharing of knowledge. Card-carrying geeks are encouraged to turn up on the night, take the podium for five minutes at a time, and show the rest of the assembled members their radical approach to problem-solving. THE CHAIRMAN ENVISAGES THAT THESE TIPS AND TRICKS WILL RELATE TO FLASH DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT although he is a radical leftist and therefore open to coersive suggestion. Should you wish to share your tips about Linux, sketching or even how to distill the perfect vodka, that too will be permitted, to the extent that it doesn’t interfere with item #1 on the agenda: SHARING YOUR RADICAL FLASH TIPS WITH OTHER FLASHERS.

PROJECTS NIGHT VII IS NOT ABOUT BOURGEOISIE SUPERSTARS DICTATING THEIR USUAL CAPITALIST DOCTRINE. IT WILL PUT YOU, THE PROLETARIAT, FIRMLY IN CONTROL.

Comrades, open your laptops, practice your five minute speeches and sound the revolution bell: next Tuesday evening at 7pm the Flash proles will storm the barricades. Sign up for party membership at Upcoming now!

FORWARD THE REVOLUTION!

ATTENTION COMRADES
Next week’s venue will be The Skiff at 49 Cheltenham Place in the North Laine instead of The Werks as our brothers-in-arms, Danny Hope’s “People’s Popular Front of UX” are meeting at the Werks. REPEAT: WE WILL BE AT THE SKIFF NEXT TUESDAY! That will be all.