iOS and Swift Essentials
If you're new to Swift and iOS development and want to write applications that run on the iPhone or iPad, this 6.5 day course is just what you need.
Description
If you're new to iOS development and want to write applications that run on the iPhone or iPad, this 7-day course is just what you need. In just seven days, we’ll have you building your first iOS application using Swift.
Online Bootcamp Price: $3000
Who should take this class?
Who Should Take This Course
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Existing object-oriented developer who wants to learn iOS development.
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Students should already be familiar with basic programming concepts: variables, statements, functions, arrays, data structures and common programming problems.
How to prepare:
Syllabus:
Syllabus
Swift
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Understand elements of the Swift standard library.
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Learn about Swift’s approach to safety and how to use it to write better apps.
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Implement Swift’s functional patterns and utilize extensions to extend “out-of-the-box” functionality.
- Learn how Swift manages memory, and contrast this with approaches that other languages take.
Xcode
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Navigate Apple’s IDE for developing iOS applications.
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Debug problems with applications using the tools that Xcode provides.
User Interfaces
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Explore basic interface elements such as labels, buttons, and segmented controls.
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Use text fields along with the delegation design pattern to gather user input.
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Build interfaces more easily using stack views.
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Use containers such as tab bar and navigation controllers to manage more complicated application structures.
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Design flexible interfaces that scale across different devices and screen sizes using Auto Layout and size classes.
Collections
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Learn how to utilize the data source design pattern.
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Display lists of elements using table views.
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Display grids of elements using collection views.
Localization
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Remove hard-coded locale-specific information – such as date formatting and decimal separators – from applications.
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Localize applications into more than one language.
Data Persistence
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Learn how the file system is organized on iOS.
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Use archiving to persist simple object graphs to the file system.
Web Services
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Interact with live APIs to fetch and display external information to the user.
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Parse JSON data into Swift model objects.