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Overview

Learn how to get started with app development and create your very first iOS app.

Duration

19 hours

Mode of learning

Online

Schedule type

Self paced

Difficulty level

Beginner

Credential

Certificate

Future job roles

CTFL, CSS

Build your very first iOS app
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Highlights

  • Requires effort of 10 hours per week
  • Offered by Curtin University
  • Earn a professional certificate upon successful completion
  • Self paced Course
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Build your very first iOS app
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Course details

Skills you will learn
What are the course deliverables?
  • Understand and use the Swift programming language
  • Use and explain the Apple developer tools: including Xcode, Interface Builder, Documentation Browser
  • Confidently converse with iOS developers, understanding the basics of coding and App development
  • Design, develop and build your own simple iOS Apps.
More about this course
  • In this course you will learn the tools, techniques and concepts needed to build a basic iOS app, from scratch. You will be introduced to the Swift programming language and learn how to utilise the Apple developer tools to build an app.

Build your very first iOS app
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Curriculum

Lesson 1: Starting App Development

Explain where programming is used and especially where Swift is used;

Explain the terminal, playgrounds;

Use Xcode to build an App for iOS; and

Use and explain variables and data types.

Lesson 2: Control Flow and Advanced Variables and Data Types

Make decisions within your programs using if-then-else statements;

Use the different logical operators NOT, AND and OR to verify the truth of something;

Use the switch statement to control what is executed next; and

Use arrays and dictionaries to store data.

Lesson 3: Xcode and Interface Builder

Navigate through Xcode projects;

Use the following areas of Xcode: project navigator, the debug area, the assistant and version editors; and

Use interface builder to build interfaces and be able to preview interfaces outside of a running App.

Lesson 4: Functions, Classes and Structures

Understand the benefits of abstraction when writing code;

Create functions, classes and structures to improve program quality;

Use classes and structures to create custom datatypes;

Understand relationships and inheritance between classes.

Lesson 5: Introduction to User Interface Development

Build Apps using common user interface views and controls;

Use Interface Builder to configure common user interface views and controls;

Connect Swift code to common user interface controls;

Use AutoLayout to ensure Apps adapt to different devices.

Lesson 6: View Controllers and Navigation

Develop Apps with multiple scenes;

Use tab bar controllers to move between scenes within Apps;

Create and utilise event handlers on view controllers;

Design an appropriate navigation hierarchy for your app.

Lesson 7: Introduction to TableViews

Use the Model View Controller design pattern for App development;

Use a ScrollView to control content display;

Use tables to display data within your App;

Respond to user input within a table.

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