iPhone 101 Training Course Outline

360iDev  •  September 26, 2009  •  Denver, CO

• Morning A
  • Introduction
  • Overview
    • History
    • Languages, tools, and frameworks
  • C/ObjC Basics
    • Declarations, definitions, headers, frameworks, #import
    • Classes and methods
    • id data type, alloc and init, static typing
  • Xcode
    • Preferences
    • Building and running, Simulator, SDK versions, provisioning devices
    • Creating and editing a Foundation Tool Project
    • NSLog, format strings and NSString constants
    • Lab: Hello world!
• Mid-Morning Break
• Morning B
  • Memory Management
    • Managing retain counts
    • Implementing dealloc
  • Declared Properties and Synthesized Accessors
    • Property declaration syntax
    • Declared attributes
  • The Foundation Framework
    • NSObject, NSString, NSArray, NSDictionary
    • Convenience creation methods, file and URL I/O, fast enumeration
    • Plists
    • Lab: Display a list of books
• Lunch Break
• Afternoon A
  • The iPhone SDK
    • Antecedents: NEXTSTEP, Mac OS X
    • Layers, libraries, and frameworks
  • Introduction to UIKit
    • The Basics: UIApplication, App Delegate, and UIWindow
    • Lab: Gray window
    • UIView and UIViewController
    • Lab: Hello world, iPhone style
  • Working with Controls
    • Working with UITextField, UIButton, and UILabel
    • Lab: Modifying a book
• Mid-Afternoon Break
• Afternoon B
  • Working with TableViews
    • UITableView, UITableViewController, and the UITableViewDataSource protocol
    • Lab: Displaying the list of books
  • Implementing Navigation
    • Working with UINavigationController
    • Implementing the UITableViewDelegate protocol
    • Lab: Drilling down to a detail view
  • Interface Builder
    • Creating a XIB (NIB) file from scratch
    • Using IBOutlet and IBAction to connect your code
    • Lab: Creating a Book Detail XIB
    • Setting up table views and navigation
    • Lab: Completing the Books app

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