The Big Nerd Ranch today announced the next offering of Cocoa Bootcamp with instructor Aaron Hillegass, August 21-25, 2006. The five-day class provides intensive training in the rigors of Cocoa development and is widely regarded as the most comprehensive course available for Cocoa developers. The course syllabus includes a spectrum of topics, building from the fundamentals of programming with Objective-C and frameworks to advanced tools such as bindings, CoreData, OpenGL and more. The Big Nerd Ranch incorporates intensive training classes for Unix and Mac OS X programmers in a retreat setting outside Atlanta, GA and in Europe. Class price of US$3500 includes lodging, all meals, original instruction materials, 24-hour lab access, and transportation to and from the Atlanta airport.