Codepatch review

[adit99]

@timothy1ee, @codepathreview here is my submission for the codepath bootcamp starting Feb 2nd

Thanks,
Aditya

[timothy1ee]

Good work, Aditya. This prework is a preview of our weekly project process. Generally, weekly projects take between 5-10 hours to complete the required features and an additional 5-10 hours to complete the optional features. In general, we've seen that the more hours you log, the quicker you improve your proficiency with iOS.

The purpose of this project was to begin to explore Xcode and to get a broad overview of iOS development using Objective-C or Swift. For example, in this project, we explored the following concepts:

• Code styling in Objective-C or Swift. You can find some code styling guides here:
  • The New York Times Objective-C Style Guide
  • Ray Wenderlich Swift Style Guide
  • Github Swift Style Guide
• Views are created in Storyboard, Interface Builder, or programatically, but they have the same goal: instantiate, initialize, and layout view objects. We use IBOutlets to give names to view objects, similar to giving unique ids to divs in HTML.
• We registered for touch events, which can be done programatically or via IBActions.
• We explored NSUserDefaults, one of the four persistence strategies in iOS.
• View controllers have a set of methods that are called when it loads, appears, or disappears. These are called view controller lifecycle methods.
• Do your views look good on iPhone 4, 5, and 6? Do your views look good on both iOS 6 vs iOS 7/8? We will cover in class how to use Auto Layout to robustly design your views for different screen sizes and OS versions.
• After this assignment, you should understand the purpose of IBOutlets and IBActions as well as the basics of designing views and programmatically interacting with the views from the controller.

[adit99]

Thanks Tim,

I'll be sure to familiarize myself with the style guides. i must say swift reminds me of python or javascript. The more concise syntax is awesome

Are there swift or objective C tutorials that you recommend. I watched the basic swift session on wwdc which was great but I am hoping to find something more interactive.

Is there any other pre-work or preparatory work that I need to do?

Thanks,
Aditya

[timothy1ee]

I read the Swift book, I thought that was pretty good. I don't have a recommendation for an interactive reference with exercises, but if you find one, let me know.

The best prep work that you can do is to come up with some app ideas and try to wireframe them. I would also download popular apps and audit what good modern apps look like.

[adit99]

sounds good thanks Tim

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 1:47 AM, Timothy Lee notifications@github.com
wrote:

I read the Swift book, I thought that was pretty good. I don't have a
recommendation for an interactive reference with exercises, but if you find
one, let me know.

The best prep work that you can do is to come up with some app ideas and
try to wireframe them. I would also download popular apps and audit what
good modern apps look like.

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