iOS Development in Swift (Seattle)

Office Hours

Office hours will be held at the Uptown Espresso at 4th and Wall on Sundays from 3pm to 4pm.
Feel free to swing by to ask questions and/or work on homework!

You can find the homework repository HERE!

Schedule

No class on: Dec 24, Dec 29, Dec 31

Lesson Number	Date	Unit	Lecture Notes	Required Reading	Bonus Blog
1	Tue, Dec 1	Introduction	Getting Started	Intro to Git Course Introduction	Just Getting Started
2	Thur, Dec 3	Intro to Nibs and Storyboards	- Scenes and Segues - Assignment 1 (due Tuesday December 8th)	Chapter One	IBOutlet and IBAction
3	Tue, Dec 8	Intro to Swift	The Swift Programming Language	Chapter Two	Apple Announcement for Swift 2.0
4	Thursday, Dec 10	Intro to Functions	Functions in Swift	Chapter Two	Why Use Functions?
5	Tuesday, Dec 15	Interface Builder and Swift	IB and Swift	Chapter Three	Reusable Views in IB
6	Thursday, Dec 17	Object Oriented Programming	Object Oriented Programming	Chapter Three	Object Oriented Programming in Swift
7	Tuesday, Dec 22	UI Elements and View Controllers	Object Oriented Programming	Chapter Four	Object Oriented Programming in Swift
8	Tuesday, Jan 5	Data Structures	Arrays and Dictionaries	Chapter Four	Collections in Swift
9	Thursday, Jan 7	Hands on With Table Views	UITableView	Chapter Four	UITableView Examples
10	Tuesday, Jan 12	Design Patterns	Using iOS Design Patterns	Chapter Five	Analysis of the Delegate Pattern
11	Thursday, Jan 14	Autolayout in Depth	Using iOS Design Patterns	Chapter Five	Visual Format Language
12	Tuesday, Jan 19	Autolayout in Depth	More Autolayout!	Chapter Six	Visual Format Language, cont'd
13	Thursday, Jan 21	Midterm Day 1	Midterm Project	Chapter Six	Conscious Ignorance and You
14	Tuesday, Jan 26	Midterm Day 2	Midterm Project	Chapter Seven	Ideas for App Projects
15	Thursday, Jan 28	Files and Data Persistence	Data Persistence	Chapter Seven	Saving Data
16	Tuesday, Feb 2	Data Modeling and Core Data	Data Modeling and Persistence	Chapter Eight	iOS Design Patterns
17	Thursday, Feb 4		Project Hack Day	Chapter Eight
18	Tuesday, Feb 9	Basic Networking	Basic Networking	Chapter Nine	Alamofire
19	Thursday, Feb 11	MapKit, Location Services, and Using the Camera		Chapter Nine	Intro to MapKit Tutorial
20	Tuesday, Feb 16	Data Modeling		App Store Submission
21	Thursday, Feb 18	Project Hack Day		Chapter Nine

Materials

Course Syllabus
Online Textbook

Additional Resources

Intro to Git
Swift Cheatsheet
Frontlines Contact: seafrontdesk@ga.co

Goals

• Learn Swift and use it to build iOS apps
• Create UI Components of an app
• Craft logic and data in an app
• Load apps on your iPhone
• Submit an app to the App Store

Units

1. App User Interface - Design and build functional user interfaces.
2. Object Oriented Design - Use Swift to drive data through your app.
3. Persisting Data + Web Services - Build apps with persistent data and that use web services.
4. Submitting Apps - Put an app in the App Store.