TurnToTech

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

We’ll start you off by teaching you programming fundamentals through a series of challenging practice problems. Then we’ll help you gain an in-
depth understanding of object-oriented programming. Once you have a strong grasp of these important topics, you will move on to developing
apps. At the completion of the course, you will have developed a strong skill set with a focus on:

• OS architecture
• Computer Science fundamentals
• Fundamentals of UI/UX design on iOS (animation, user interaction, buttons, tabs, maps, etc.)
• Data: Storing data in the cloud using AWS as well as on the mobile device using SQLite.
• Interacting with web services and APIs such as social networks and review sites
• creating your own web services using AWS
• Using iOS device features like camera and GPS
• Relatively advanced topics such as security, app performance, asynchronous programming, design patterns, and testing

COMPUTER SCIENCE FUNDAMENTALS

Fundamental Programming Skills

• Strings
• Arrays
• Sets
• Linked Lists
• Stacks
• Queues
• Sorting
• Searching
• Analysis of Algorithms

MOBILE DEVELOPMENT

Fundamental Programming Skills

• 100 challenging programming problems in Objective-C (or Swift if you prefer)
• Emphasis on fundamentals and consistency
• Tooling essentials: XCode, LLVM, and Clang
• Source control using Git

Digital Leash: Build a small but complete mobile application with a cloud backend

• Major iOS Classes for app dev
• The delegation pattern in iOS
• HTTP and JSON for device-cloud communication
• End to end debugging techniques (iOS, network, Backend, Memory)
• Parent- Child Geolocation app (Two apps, one for parent and one for child). The goal of this project is to learn about
  Interface builder, Geolocation, Async network connections, JSON Obj-C conversions and validation

UI and Essential Classes for iOS

• Collections
• UITableView and UICollectionView
• NSURLConnection
• Delegate pattern in various contexts
• Simple UITableView
• NavController with Network connectivity and Object-Oriented design
• Goal: Learn about the following:
  • The Navigation controller hierarchy
  • View lifecycle- viewDidLoad, viewDidAppear
  • UITableView, UICollectionView – delete, selections, best data structure for UITableView and reloading of Data
  • Robust Async Network calls
  • Object-oriented design and abstraction of the data layer and view layer

Data Persistence

• Options for persisting data on device – NSUserDefaults, SQLite
• Core Data persistence framework
• Relational database design and the concept of normalization
• – NavController- add persistence using sqlite, user defaults, core-data

More iOS Essentials

• Creating UI programmatically
• UIWebVIew, WKWebView – back and forth communication with native code
• NSTimer
• Maps
• NSNoticationCenter
• UIImagePickerController for camera
• Social framework for Facebook posts and Twitter tweets
• Animation essentials – build your own game!
• Small projects involving all of the above