iOS & tvOS Game Development

Topics

• Intro to Course
• Intro to Xcode
• Intro Swift:
  • Swift Language Guide
  • Swift Guided Tour
  • var and let
  • Primitive types: Int, Float, Double, String, Boolean
  • print() and string interpolation
  • Type Inference and Type Safety
  • Type Aliases
• Intro to Playgrounds

Assignments

• SG-1 (Chapter 1 & 2)
• Hello RIT ICE
• Hello RIT II ICE

Links

• store.apple.com - education
• wikipedia.org - Minimum Viable Product
• Here are some high quality iOS/Swift resources for you to check out:
  1. The iOS Dev Center has links to documentation, video, sample code, and the latest version of Xcode. You'll have to login with your developer account to access everything.
  2. The Swift Programming Language Tour and Language Guide
  3. The Swift Standard Library Reference
  4. Apple's Start Developing iOS Apps Today is a great overview of how to develop iOS Apps. Unfortunately, it's written in Objective-C, so it's not as useful to us as it could be.
  5. The Big Nerd Ranch has an excellent blog on iOS and Android development here: http://www.bignerdranch.com/blog/
  6. raywenderlich.com has a large number of iOS and Swift tutorials: http://www.raywenderlich.com
  7. This site has a lot of links to nice Swift tutorials: http://www.learnswift.tips
  8. SpriteKit is Apple's API for creating 2D games. This site has a lot of links to nice SpriteKit tutorials: http://www.sprite-kit.com/tutorials/
  9. SceneKit is Apple's API for creating 3D games. It is new with iOS 8. Here's a tutorial on how to get started: http://www.raywenderlich.com/83748/beginning-scene-kit-tutorial
  10. There are also a lot of video tutorials and demos on YouTube - just ask the google.

Topics

• More Swift:
  • Tuples
  • Optionals and Unwrapping
  • Collection classes: Dictionary & Array discussed in SG-2
  • Functions
  • Random Numbers
  • Loading files
• Installing an App onto iOS hardware

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Assignments

Links

• stackoverflow - What is an optional value in Swift
• stackoverflow - What does an exclamation mark mean in the swift language?
• matteomanferdini.com - Understanding Swift Optionals
• developer.apple.com - NSBundle
• developer.apple.com - NSString
• developer.apple.com - NSString Programming Guide

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• Career Fair - Wednesday 9/16, Interviews Thursday 9/17

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• no classes 11/23-11/27

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You will present your final projects during finals week: 10:15AM - 12:15PM