„Scott knows the very fundamentals of Cocoa and Cocoa touch as well as ObjC. His strong base is very important to start learning developing for the iPhone. He has been a perfect teacher, he is also very kind and make the classes be very funny.“ Student J.H.E., 2010

„Excellent! It was the best structured seminar I ever attended. The way the lectures were presented was outstandingly elaborated. The coverage surpassed my expectations.

Both instructors did an excellent job. Jay and Carsten are a perfect duo. They explained everything absolutely clear and comprehensible. I couldn't imagine a better introduction to OpenGL.

You can tell that Jay has lots of experience in teaching this very intense matter the optimal way. Carsten could even answer my very special questions (e.g. about texture blending).“ Student J.D., 2010

„Very good. Scott has a lot of knowledge of the subject, dating back to the NeXT period. His lectures are very clear and he's flexible to change subject depending on the students interests.“ Student M.H., 2010

„This way of following a training is for sure the way to go. If the courses meet my needs, I'll for sure want to come again!

Great accommodations. A real treat! The food was great, and nothing was too much trouble. Compliments to Stefanie!

It was as if the rest of the world did not exist any more. Well except of course the release of the iPad... ;-)

Overall almost everything was being done to fulfill my diet wishes.“ Student A.N., 2010

„Scott has been an amazing instructor, making me understand concepts I was trying to understand since a long time with no success, or making me understand 100% concepts partially understood. I'm not able to suggest any improvement.“ Student M.R., 2010

„Awesome. 0% RTFM. He tries his best to answer every(!) question and what I liked most was that he did not stick to some fixed plan but changed it in a way so that everybody could get the most out of this week. This especially refers to Thursday where he offered several options so that each attendee could choose what suits him best.

Scott said his aim was to enable us to understand and modify code and sample projects and he absolutely achieved it by focussing on the language itself and on basic concepts that are used everywhere within the SDK.“ Student A.T., 2010

“Thank you for organizing the Cocoa I Bootcamp and looking after all of us. The bootcamp was exactly what I needed for my next projects. I too enjoyed meeting you and the others.” Student R.C., 2009

“I am very satisfied with the outcome of the class.  I feel like I made another leap in understanding.” Student M.Y., 2009

“I think I'll have a lot of work after that week to build something from scratch. Anyway, the place is beautiful and quiet, the food is delicious, it's wonderful! Thank you for the shirt!” Student A.L., 2009

“Now that I'm back at my office, I just wanted to say thank you for the great (again) Big Nerd Ranch course. ... I have really enjoyed the course and it was very useful.” Student G.C, 2009

“The week at Kloster Eberbach was enjoyable in all ways.  It's always nice to see you and to meet interesting and hard-working colleagues.” Student J.A., 2008

“I would like to tell you that I was very happy to go the last training and I've learned a lot of things. The training was very good, and also the location.” Student L.D., 2008

“Our WO productivity is through the roof since I've been back from Germany. Management and our small dev team are really pleased with the results :)” Student M.S., 2008

“I just wanted to thank you for a great time at Eberbach. The course was great and the sharing of your ruby on rails experiences and info made it even better.” Student P.H., 2007

“Thank you once again for the great course and for taking such good care of all of us. The Informatics librarian was thrilled with the copy of the book - we attached your business card to the inside cover and put in a little announcement that says: "This book was donated to the University of Sussex Informatics Library by Big Nerd Ranch Europe on April 20, 2007" Student P.P., 2007

“Wow, I have the Aaron signature on my book, Thanks! Next time I'll bring my piano and we'll write the Big Nerd Ranch Song ... try to guess the title....” Student P.S., 2007

“This has been an extraordinary week for many reasons. First of all we had great time together and it was great getting to know all of you. Second the course was fantastic, and I look forward for more of this in the future =)” Student G.A., 2006

“I'm also very happy to have met everyone who made me feel a part of this Cocoa developers family. This last week became a very special week for me.” Student D.V., 2006

“A big thanks to both yourself and Aaron for a great week. It was a very enjoyable and enlightening course with good food, wine and great company too. The setting was wonderful, my wife was quiet jealous as she spent the week painting our kitchen :-)” Student A.E., 2006

“Big thanks to all for your company - I had a great time.

Chris - thanks for being so good at sharing your knowledge with us.

Stefanie, Guido - thanks for the organisation - it was perfect :)” Student F.R., 2006

“F.R. already said it perfectly, so I'll just 'me too' here (can you tell I'm kind of lazy guy ;-) So many thanks to every one for great and inspiring week!” Student T.K., 2006

“I too had a great time and just wanted to say that one of the things (among many) that I loved about the course was the quality of my fellow students. There is nothing better than to be inspired by your peers.  Every line of code I ever write, I will ask myself does it live up to what they would expect. Thanks for the motivation.” Student T.B., 2006

“Just wanted to thank Chris and Stefanie and Guido for the great class - and you other guys for asking interesting questions and all the discussions at the table and and and...

I wouldn't be surprised if my company is sending people to other bootcamps over the next months.“ Student B.D., 2006

“I must say that it is great that you are organizing the courses in Europe so that we don't have to go to US!” Student M.D., 2005