Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!nova.cc.purdue.edu!gerrit From: gerrit@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Gerrit) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXT Developer's Camp Keywords: opinions, feedback wanted Message-ID: <3786@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 30 Aug 89 05:36:20 GMT References: Sender: news@mentor.cc.purdue.edu Reply-To: gerrit@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Gerrit) Organization: Purdue University Lines: 31 In article binde@pilot.njin.net (Beth Binde) writes: > >Has anyone attended the NeXT Developer's camp. Any feeback? Was it >worthwhile? The camp is *very* worthwhile. It is also quite intensive. Most of the four days I spent out there were 8-11 days. Not the 3 hour version - the 15 hour version. In addition to the walk-through of most of the capabilities of the machine and some of the program development philosophies, you get a chance to meet many of the people who design and maintain the machine. This is a good place to bring your pile of questions on the machine and get them answered by the people that really know. The course is split into lectures with questions and answers (each lecture is usually led by someone who specializes in that area) and labs where you get a chance to experiment with the machines and work on some real projects. You also get to see what other people are interested in the machine plan on doing. And, perhaps one of the most important side effects of the training is that you get to see the attitude of the people working for NeXT. That was probably one of the most unusual and most interesting things I learned that week: The people out there are really excited about their product and *really* interested in your feedback. Gerrit Huizenga NeXT Workstation Support Purdue University Computing Center gerrit@cc.purdue.edu