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Okay, welcome to Santa Monica.
I had this big plans about how I was going to come down to the Apple
store in Santa Monica and film the welcome video for
this third installment of the iOS Coursera class.
And as you can see, it is raining.
I would say it is pouring rain, but
this is California so it's just actually barely raining.
But the entire state has shut down because we never see any rain at all.
So anyway, in keeping with the tradition of opening the courses with
videos outside of Apple stores, I'm in Santa Monica and
I want to welcome you to this third installment of the iOS course.
In this course we're going to focus on user interface, best known practices.
We've got four things set up for you.
The first part of the course is going to be based on kind of
the design guidelines that Apple introduces and
the design concepts that they've got as kind of lecture based material.
We're going to look at how that translates through the human interface guidelines
into the software development kit over the course of this course.
We're going to be evaluating you with three assessments.
One of the assessments is going to be a quiz and
two others are going to be programming peer review assignments.
kind of excited about the peer review assignments they're pretty fun.
The first number one that we're going to ask you to do is to work with the layout
engine, the auto layout engine, to handle the case of device adaptivity or
trying to understand how to make your application
work with a variety of different devices, both in terms of the hardware but
also in terms of the layout and whether it's landscape or portrait.
So we're going to look at that.
Another one we're going to ask you to do is to work with the mapping interface
in iOS.
So we're going to be doing a peer review assignment with the map kit and
we're going to ask you to map a few locations and
work with the interface in order to center the map on your location.
And for the peer review assignment we're going to ask you to use a simulated
location that's provided by the iOS device simulator.
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The third and final peer review assignment that we're going to ask you
to do is to put together a to do list manager.
So this to-do list manager is kind of going to be a synthesis of a lot of
different things we're talking about in the course.
You're going to be working with the table view and
you're going to be working with core data.
And you're going to be working with the navigation view controller.
And try to put them all together to create, basically, a to do list manager
that might be good enough for you to actually use in just your regular life.
It's just a simple note taking exercise.
>> Hi everybody.
I'm Sam Kaufman, a partner at Gradient, a small design and
dev shop in Brooklyn, New York.
And I will be working with Don to show you some of the most important things you need
to know about designing beautiful user interfaces for iOS.
>> So, first half of the course is largely lecture based and
then the second half is going to be a lot of pair programming with me on the fly.
So, I'm really looking forward to seeing what you guys come up with.
There's a really neat example that we're not going to evaluate you on but
we're going to show you how to respond to the keyboard and
make your, we make the layout engine respond to keyboard events.
Sam and I work closely on this to try and
demonstrate some of the best known practices for developing an iOS and
you're going to see somebody use some of those in the pair programming that we do.
And otherwise we're just super excited to get this out in the wild, we've been
working on it for a long time, and Sam and I have had a lot of conversations about
the best way to develop some interfaces for you to follow and for you to model.
So looking forward to seeing you online, good luck.
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Don PattersonAssociate Professor
Sam KaufmanPartner at Gradient
