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:

• iOS architecture
• Fundamentals of UI/UX design on iOS (animation, user interaction, buttons, tabs, maps, etc.)
• Storing data in the cloud using AWS as well as on the mobile device using Core Data and SQLite
• Interacting with web services and APIs such as Facebook and Twitter
• Creating your own web service using AWS
• Using iOS device features like camera and GPS
• Relatively advanced topics such as security, app performance, asynchronous programming, design patterns, and testing

16 Week Curriculum in brief

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 communitcation
• 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

Amazon Cloud

• Amazon EC2
• S3 – storing data in the cloud
• Develop a Java backend using S3
• Integrate backend with iOS using JSON
• Video Camera app with advanced features such as cloud storage using Amazon S3 and slow-motion video

Internship Project:

There are a variety of technology options depending on the project we work on. But most will include the following:

• An iOS App
• RESTful services using a Java backend (typically Tomcat, Spring)
• HTTP and JSON for device-cloud communitcation
• Design and Architecture–database modeling, service design and system architecture
• Our systems are typically deployed on Amazon EC2 and we use S3 for storage. We may use other Amazon services such as SNS/SQS/MySQL where applicable.