CS2049: Intermediate iPhone Development

Cornell University, Spring 2016

Instructor: Daniel Hauagge (dc579)

Ithaca

Time: Saturdays, 1 PM to 4 PM
Dates: Feb 6th, Feb 20th, Mar 5th, Mar 19th
Place: G01 Gates Hall
TA: Guandao Yang (gy46)
TA: Zheng Fu (James) (zf38)

New York City

Time: Thursdays, from 6:15 PM to 9:15 PM
Dates: Feb 4th, Feb 18th, Mar 3rd, Mar 17th
Place: Big Red
TA: Brandon Plaster (bp364)

Overview

The course covers intermediate topics in iOS development with a hands-on approach. During each lecture students develop an application along with the lecturer.

Covered topic include AVFoundation (audio and video framework, including video capture), SpriteKit, CoreMotion, Auto-Layout, and multi-threaded application development.

The course is taught in Swift using the latest non-beta version of Xcode and iOS.

Pre-requisite: CS2048 or basic understanding of Xcode and Obj-C or Swift.

Requirements: In every lecture each student must bring: a Mac with Xcode 7 installed, and an iPhone running iOS 9.

Announcements

• March 28th: Solution for homework 3 posted.
• March 20th: Due date for final project exteded to April 11th.
• Feb 28th: Solution code for Homework 1 posted.
• ITH Feb 21st: Homework 2 is out on CMS together with the instructor's source code. Due date is March 4th.
• NYC Feb 19th: Homework 2 is out on CMS together with the instructor's source code. Due date is March 2nd.
• NYC Feb 8th: First lab session to be held Feb 9th from 7:30 to 9:00 in Big Red.
• ITH Feb 7th: Homework 1 is out on CMS together with the instructor's source code. Due date is Feb 19th.
• NYC Feb 5th: Homework 1 is out on CMS together with the instructor's source code. Due date is Feb 17th.

References

• Apple's official Swift language guide.
• A Swift cheat sheet.
• Some other great resources iOS development: NSHipster, objc.io (checkout the "issues" section)

Schedule