On this course you will learn how to develop iPhone and iPad apps from scratch. This course is designed to walk you through a series of hands-on, instructor-led exercises that exposes you to all the functionality in the Apple Software Developer Kit (SDK), so you can start developing your own apps immediately.
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Part One: Objective-C Language
- Introduction/Review of C language basics
- Introduction to Object-Oriented programming.
Part Two: XCode
- Tour of XCode IDE
- Anatomy of XCode projects
- Interface Builder and Nibs
- Documentation
- Project Lifecycle
Part Three: Cocoa
- Foundation Classes and Cocoa library survey
- NSObject, NSString, Collection Classes and more!
- Protocols, Categories
- Cocoa Event Handling
- Notifications
- Timers
- Delegates and Data Sources
- Actions and the Responder Chain
- Accessors, Properties and Memory Management
- Object communication and Cocoa Design Patterns
- Key-Value Observing
Part Four: Views
- Windows and View hierarchies
- View properties and transformations
- Drawing views with Core Graphics
- Layers and Animation with Core Animation
- Touch handling and Gesture Recognizers
Part Five: Interfaces
- View Controllers
- Rotation Handling
- Modal Views, Tab Bars, Navigation Controllers
- Table Views
Who should take this course:
- You are new to iPhone Development or have recently just started trying to develop for the iPhone and need some guidance making sense of it all
- You have some experience or are somewhat familiar with an Object Oriented Language (Java, C, C++, C#, Ruby or Python). It is not a must but it will help. If you have none consider reading a book prior to the course start.
You will need:
- An Intel Macintosh laptop computer with Snow Leopard installed. We can and will provide Laptops for those that require one at no charge.
- Xcode 4 and the iPhone SDK installed on your Macintosh laptop.
What is included:
- Beverages and snacks, in the AM and PM
- A PDF of all the printed material
- All the example source code to refer back to later
- eBook
- Internet connectivity and power during the course
