Virginia's Community Colleges: ITP 137 - Programming IOS Devices

ITP 137 - Programming IOS Devices

Course Description

Effective: 2013-05-01

Examines object-oriented Objective C design and programming concepts for Mac OS X, iPhone and iPad. Introduces the tools and APIs for the latest iOS SDK, and how they fit together to build full-featured iOS and Mac OS X applications.

Lecture 3-4 hours per week. 3-4 credits.

3-4 credits

General Course Purpose

To give the student competence in designing, creating, and implementing applications in Objective C.

Course Objectives

Understand the syntax of the Objective-C language.
Understand and explain object-oriented programming concepts.
Use XCode to develop programs for Mac OS/X and iOS.
Understand the core frameworks in both Mac OS/X and iOS.
Know how to read the Mac OS/X and iOS documentation.
Create interface files, implementation files.
Write classes using protocols.
Understand the difference between object id?s and pointers.

Major Topics to be Included

How to use the XCode IDE
Using Interface Builder to rapidly build applications
Source code revision control
Objective C Syntax
Interface and Implementation Files
Adding functionality to foreign classes with Protocols
Object Oriented Programming
Cocoa Touch API
AppKit API
Model-View-Controller design pattern

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