As you will most likely have noticed, Qt for S60 is going to be really big. Therefore, it’s a good idea to start learning Qt as soon as possible.

One chance to do this is going to be the first public “Qt on S60” webinar (as announced by Lucian Tomuta), which will be broadcasted in just two days (December 17th).

To get an overview of what Qt can do for you and how to get Qt to do just that, you might additionally want to take a look at the new Qt course materials that have just been published at symbianresources.com.

Three modules are already finished, which cover many of the general aspects of Qt cross-platform development, including:

-    Qt overview
-    Signals and Slots
-    Meta-Objects, Properties
-    Widgets, Dialogs, Main Window
-    Menus, Toolbars, Actions
-    Events
-    Layouts and Styles, low level painting
-    Data types
-    Internationalization
-    Settings
-    Sockets / Files

In the future, new modules with a special focus on unique aspects of Qt for S60 will be added. Due to the cross-platform nature of Qt, the features that have been covered in the general slide sets are of course fully applicable to all platforms that Qt runs on, including S60.

Comments are very welcome, as this is a brand new addition to our curriculum in order to react as quickly as possible to future developments in the mobile world. I’m curious to see in what way it’ll all turn out and what kind of impact Qt will have on the Symbian OS-based community and the mobile community in general!