Aaron Hillegass
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Aaron Hillegass started programming at the age of 10. After graduating university he took his first full time job, working for the Mitre Corporation in their Advanced Signal Processing Lab. He went on to develop NEXTSTEP
application software for Wall Street
. Between 1995 - 1997 he was employed at NeXT
as a developer and trainer. In 1997, NeXT merged with Apple Computer
. Hillegass elected to leave his role to start his own dot-com business. In 2000, he was then contracted by Apple to help train their software developers in the Cocoa
application programming interface
(API), an evolution of the NEXTSTEP API. He currently teaches Cocoa development and Cocoa consulting projects through his company Big Nerd Ranch.
Aaron is best known to many Cocoa programmers as the author of Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, a popular introductory text for Cocoa
developers.
NEXTSTEP
NeXTSTEP was the object-oriented, multitasking operating system developed by NeXT Computer to run on its range of proprietary workstation computers, such as the NeXTcube...
application software for Wall Street
Wall Street
Wall Street refers to the financial district of New York City, named after and centered on the eight-block-long street running from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, or...
. Between 1995 - 1997 he was employed at NeXT
NeXT
Next, Inc. was an American computer company headquartered in Redwood City, California, that developed and manufactured a series of computer workstations intended for the higher education and business markets...
as a developer and trainer. In 1997, NeXT merged with Apple Computer
Apple Computer
Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad...
. Hillegass elected to leave his role to start his own dot-com business. In 2000, he was then contracted by Apple to help train their software developers in the Cocoa
Cocoa (API)
Cocoa is Apple's native object-oriented application programming interface for the Mac OS X operating system and—along with the Cocoa Touch extension for gesture recognition and animation—for applications for the iOS operating system, used on Apple devices such as the iPhone, the iPod Touch, and...
application programming interface
Application programming interface
An application programming interface is a source code based specification intended to be used as an interface by software components to communicate with each other...
(API), an evolution of the NEXTSTEP API. He currently teaches Cocoa development and Cocoa consulting projects through his company Big Nerd Ranch.
Aaron is best known to many Cocoa programmers as the author of Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, a popular introductory text for Cocoa
Cocoa (API)
Cocoa is Apple's native object-oriented application programming interface for the Mac OS X operating system and—along with the Cocoa Touch extension for gesture recognition and animation—for applications for the iOS operating system, used on Apple devices such as the iPhone, the iPod Touch, and...
developers.