Course Topics

Course Outline by Topic

• Software Design Patterns
  • Interface v. Implementation
  • Target-Action
  • MVC
  • Notifications
  • Delegation and Protocols (Dynamic Dispatch)
  • Inheritance
  • Composition
  • Separation of Concern
  • Singleton
  • Categories
  • Message Sending - receiver/message/arguments
  • Call-by-prefix (property generation)
• Mobile App Design
  • Design Process
  • Application Definition Statement
• Navigation
  • Drill Down
  • Tab Bar
  • iPad Split View
  • iPad Collection View
• C Language Features and Concepts
  • Main Method
  • Variables, Scope, and Data Types
  • C arrays
  • C structs
  • Writing C Functions
  • Compiler Build Phases
  • Pre-processor
  • linking
  • Heap and Stack
  • Pointers
  • Passing By Reference v. By Value
  • Math Functions
  • stdlib.h
  • pre-defined macros: __FUNCTION__ , __FILE__
  • #include, #import, #pragma, #define
  • functions v. macros v. inline C functions
• Objective-C Language Features and Concepts
  • Classes
  • Initializers
  • ivars
  • Properties
  • Methods
  • Delegates and Protocols
  • Categories
  • Class Continuations
  • C Blocks
• Foundation Classes
  • NSString & NSMutableString
  • NSArray & NSMutableArray
  • NSDictionary & NSMutableDictionary
  • NSDate
  • Objective-C Literals
  • Objective-C 2.0 Enumeration
• Cocoa Touch
  • Application Delegate - application lifecycle
  • UIView and its subclasses
• Other iOS Frameworks
  • Core Location
  • Maps
• Debugging
• Testing - Unit Testing - SenTestKit Framework
• Profiling with Instruments
  • Core Animation Tool
  • Leaks Tool
• Case Studies
  • CountR & Technobabble Generator
    Concepts explored:
    • Interface Builder
    • Target-Action
    • View Controllers
    • Writing Methods
    • Calling Methods on Foundation classes
  • Acey Ducey
    Concepts explored:
    • Custom Classes
    • Images
  • ...