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Path: digifix!not-for-mail From: Chris Walters <walters@goldberg.rdr.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: RDR Training Schedule & Overview Date: 4 Aug 1993 00:23:24 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Lines: 131 Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Approved: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <23ndjs$69q@digifix.digifix.com> Reply-To: walters@goldberg.rdr.com In late 1992, RDR was selected by NeXT from a number of competing bidders to become a full NeXTedge (NeXT's Training and Support Division) partner in the Washington Metropolitan area and offer training services to the local NEXTSTEP user community. Since then, RDR's Advanced Technology Solutions Group (ATSG) has provided a full spectrum of NEXTSTEP training classes to nearly end users and programmers under a comprehensive curriculum called RDR UNIVERSITY. RDR University is designed to offer "Undergraduate" classes for both users and developers as well as "Graduate" courses to meet the needs of all experience levels. The Undergraduate curriculum consists of some basic courses such as Objective C (for programmers), UNIX (for system administrators), End User Orientation and the popular Developer Class 101 for learning to program in NEXTSTEP. The Graduate curriculum, geared for the more experience users, offers NeXT System Administration, DBKit, NeXT in a Mixed UNIX Environment and a more advanced programmer's class called Developer Class 201. Students may take the courses individually or design their own sequence of classes as a migration path to becoming a proficient NEXTSTEP user. COURSE NAME DATES UNIX for System Administrators September 1 - 3 October 13 - 15 Objective C and Object-Oriented Concepts August 10 -12 October 5 - 7 November 30 - December 2 NEXTSTEP Developer Class 101 August 16 - 20 October 18 - 22 December 6 - 10 Programming with DBKit August 4 - 5 September 15 - 16 November 3 - 4 NeXT System Administration July 27 - 29 September 8 - 10 October 26 - 28 NeXT in a Mixed UNIX Environment September 29 - 30 November 9 - 10 NEXTSTEP Developer 201 August 24 - 27 November 16 - 19 End User Orientation to NEXTSTEP Scheduled as required Since selection as a NeXTedge partner, ATSG has held over 20 classes and trained over 100 students from both government and commercial organizations, rapidly becoming the premiere provider of NEXTSTEP training on the East Coast. NEXTSTEP users from the Air Force, Navy and other government agencies look upon ATSG as their primary training partner as do companies like Martin Marietta, Trident Data Systems, SAIC, MRJ and TASC. Training can be provided either on-site or in ATSG's Fairfax, VA Training Center, a newly renovated facility where each student is assigned his/her own workstation. (ATSG will soon be investing in a classroom of Intel platforms to give students the full exposure to NEXTSTEP Intel.) ATSG instructors, all NEXTSTEP programmers themselves, bring a vast amount of practical experience and real-life examples to the classroom. Here is what a few students have said about their experience... "The class was extremely well taught. (The instructor) is both knowledgeable and patient, something that was greatly appreciated... I thought the course material was well organized and well presented..." " What I liked about this course was how it was tailored to reflect the type of application we will be writing; very accommodating." "A very enjoyable class. The instructor was very knowledgeable and covered topics precisely...(The teacher) was an excellent instructor and I will definitely take classes with RDR in the future." "Excellent! (The instructor) adapted to our needs, added problems which made us think through and understand. Provided a special C++ problem to help us understand how to handle our requirement to integrate C++. Excellent white board graphics to illustrate." "This was an excellent course. It provided me with a comprehensive overview of the object-oriented programming concepts as employed by the NEXTSTEP development environment. Particularly beneficial was the combination of lectures and Project Builder/Interface Builder programming assignments...I strongly endorse this course and would not hesitate to recommend it to those who are seriously considering programming in the NEXTSTEP environment." Because each course is tailored by the instructor to meet individual needs, students are virtually guaranteed to learn the material and meet the course objectives. To ensure that each student successfully applies the learned concepts outside the classroom, ATSG goes one step further to offer Post-Training HotLine support. Students may call ATSG with questions regarding anything in the course material during the month following the class. To receive RDR's complete training catalog with course descriptions, please contact Denise Britti (dbritti@rdr.com) at RDR at 703/591-9651 or email train@rdr.com and provide name, mailing address and phone number. ATSG looks forward to having you in class! RDR is a registered commercial and federal systems integrator in the NeXT community providing software development and other consulting services for a number of government, city and commercial clients. RDR has also developed a family of NeXTSTEP interface development objects called PowerPalettes (commercially available) which has helped hundreds of programmers save application development time and cost. ATSG has already announced and will soon be shipping its first end user presentation graphics package called @image. @image combines powerful drawing tools along with a number of unique speaker aids to create dynamic and memorable on-line or hard copy presentations. For more information about these products, please call ATSG at 703/591-8713.
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