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Bonus section (time permitting)
- Human interface guidelines.
- General tips for building mobile applications

Who are the instructors?

Jonathan Rasmusson

Jonathan Rasmusson is the author of  The Agile Samurai.  As a self described teacher who likes to program, Jonathan loves demystifying iPhone application development, and making the complex seem simple. When not coaching his sons’ hockey teams or cycling to work in the throes of a Canadian winter, Jonathan can be found sharing his experiences on iPhone development at his blog, The Agile Warrior.

Paul Thorsteinson

Paul Thorsteinson likes making great things as CTO at Robots and Pencils. He was the lead on Spy vs Spy which sat at #1 in the App Store for over a week.  He loves iOS development, cuddles Ruby on Rails, and once had a relationship with .NET but they split up.  You can see his work in Spy vs Spy, Catch the Princess, World Explorer for Minecraft, Deco Windshield (yes they run their entire business on their iPad), Anthm, Own This World and too many other apps.  If you ask nicely maybe you can test out his Arduino breath-a-lyzer or his compressed air rocket launcher…

Detailed course breakdown / Agenda

Here’s what you’ll actually be building

DAY ONE:

1. Xcode
- Overview of IDE
- Building, compiling, debugging
- Navigation, document outline, utilities views

2. iOS overview, Objective-c, Model-View-Controller
- Objective-c syntax, pointers, properties, methods and classes
- Interface, implementation files (.h, .m files)
- In depth overview and explanation of MVC

3. Protocols and delegates
- Synchronous vs asynchronous calls
- Why delegates are essential and extensively used
- Protocols in our weather service and setting up callbacks

4. UINavigationController, UITableViewController
- Passing information from one view to another
- Tips and recommendations from the Human Interfaces Guidelines
- Setting up and creating navigation/tableview controllers

5. UITextFields, UISwitch, UIDatePicker
- How get/set values from these controls
- Controls and properties, IBOutlets, and connecting to views
- Layout guidelines, best practices

6. Storyboards and Segues
- Visualizing workflow with storyboards
- Transitioning from one view to another via segues
- Effective segue usage and management

7. UITableView
– Working with single column tables
- Multi-dimensional tables
- Population, delegates, callbacks, and transitions
- Sections, styles, and tableview elements

DAY TWO:

8. NSTimer/UserDefaults
- Giving our alarm clock a timer
- AppDelegates
- iOS application lifecycle

9. UILocalNotificiation
- Giving the user feedback via alerts
- Setting alarms & registering for events

10. NSNotification & JSON
- How the NSNotification pattern works
- Communicating with an external weather service API
- Parsing JSON response
- Making life easier via AFNetworking

11. Twitter, email, and Action Sheets
- Creating our own twitter feed
- Sending email
- Navigating with action sheets

12. Custom Graphics
- Making things beautiful
- Tips and tricks for working with custom graphics
- UIThemes, custom colors, tints, and working with art

13. Deployment
- Getting your app into the App Store
- Building, archiving, deploying
- Gotchas and things to watch out for

14. Storyboards and xibs
- What’s a xib?
- How do they work
- Gotchas and things to watch out for