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Aaron Hillegass

Founder of Big Nerd Ranch; author of the classic Cocoa and iOS programming guides

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The work

What we are celebrating, specifically.

  • 'Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X', 'iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide', and 'Objective-C Programming' - standard references that trained a generation of Apple developers.
  • Founded Big Nerd Ranch in 2001, building the immersive, distraction-free bootcamp model for teaching Cocoa and iOS.
  • Founded the Kontinua Foundation to provide free, self-paced STEM education, and now teaches CS and entrepreneurship at Georgia Tech.

Georgia Tech / Kontinua Foundation

Educator & author · current

Teaches computer science; founded a free STEM-education nonprofit

Why

Why we celebrate them.

For being, for many Apple developers, the first patient voice that made Cocoa make sense - and for spending the years since giving that gift away for free.

Sources — their own pages, so you can check us

  • Wikipedia · Aaron Hillegass
  • Goodreads · Aaron Hillegass
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