Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
18 Hour(s) 0 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Nick Walter, Jenna Miller
Rating
Course Overview
The exciting class that takes you on an adventure to learn how to make iOS 9 iPhone apps, using Swift 2 and Xcode 7.
Are you ready for an adventure?! Join Udemy's most enjoyable class and learn how to make your own freaking iPhone apps! No prior programming experience necessary.
We'll walk you through everything needed to create and submit your very own app idea to the app store, starting from scratch. We firmly believe in learning by doing, so we'll make 14 real world iOS 9 apps using Swift 2 and Xcode 7 together.
We run through every single step from installing Xcode (the program we use to make apps) down to how to make money with your apps. And we'll never talk over your head. We've experienced the harsh reality of complicated and wordy tutorials and online classes. This class is what we wish we'd had when we were first learning to make apps. It's the first class to break everything down to the level that is perfect for "newbies" so that you never feel lost, and can excel and learn quickly.
Some of what we'll cover in our apps:
- GPS Navigation
- Using the Camera
- Using the Microphone
- Integrating with Social Media
- In-App Purchases
- Bluetooth
- Games
- Making Social Networks with Parse
- More (you can look through the sections below)
But ultimately we are not just checking off apps. We are helping you to move toward sustainable growth and becoming a professional in iOS development. We'll help you get integrated with the iOS developer community and provide you with the resources you need to accomplish your goals.
What makes us (Jenna and Rick) the right teachers?
- We have more than 10 iOS apps in the App Store which total over 300,000+ downloads
- Rick teaches more than 23,000 other students in his conglomerate of highly rated iOS development Udemy courses
- We have personality! We like to use, *ahem*, an energetic and engaging course style
- We have 6+ years iOS development experience
- We were once newbies who got confused by wordy blog posts and tutorials. We'll never talk over your head.
- Rick created the first Udemy Swift course and also teaches the highly rated “Apple Watch - Go From Newbie to Pro by Building 15 Apps" course.
Who is this class for?
- People who want to make apps. We will not be teaching wordy or complicated computer science philosophies. We'll cover how to make apps that you can play with, share with friends & family, and offer to the world!
- Beginners. You don't need any programming experience to take this class. We've been the absolute beginners before and want to help you.
- Those programmers who are new to iOS 9 or Swift 2. Dive in with your prior experience and move more quickly, on to become an impressive iOS developer.
- Entrepreneurs who have an idea for an app. Don't pay somebody thousands to build your app. Do it yourself. Having the ability to create something you can think of is extremely powerful.
- Career development professionals who want to earn money professionally via contract work, consulting, full-time employment, and so forth
Course Content
- 10 section(s)
- 230 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Your First App - It's time to make a freaking app :)
- Section 2 Goals of the Class
- Section 3 What's New in iOS 9
- Section 4 *APP 1* Friendbook
- Section 5 Swift School - Learn the basics of Apple's new language
- Section 6 *APP 2* FriendBook Plus
- Section 7 *APP 3* Colorific
- Section 8 Building Your Dream App
- Section 9 *APP 4* Do or Do Not (To-Do List)
- Section 10 *APP 5* Shopping Assistant
What You’ll Learn
- You'll have apps that you've created IN the app store!
- You'll be up to speed with everything new in iOS 9, Swift 2, and Xcode 7
- You'll know how to use GPS, the camera, and the microphone in your app development
- You'll know how to use PARSE to make your very own social networks
- You'll know how to leverage game-making principles to make your own GAME apps
- You'll know how to integrate with major social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter
- You'll know how to use Bluetooth in your apps
- You'll know how to make money with your apps using in-app purchases and ads
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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IIdo Yerushalmi
Very informative course! I liked very much how things are being displayed! I suggest to update the Parse section (server side) videos since parse announced about going out of the business and close their doors.. so videos how to work with parse become irrelevant anymore..
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SSheldon Hurst
Exactly what I need so far to learn how to build an app with zero knowledge. Greatly appreciate the effort put forth by the trainers. Keep up the good work.
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AAlfred Vink
Great Course! Outdated by now because iOS 10, Swift 3 and XCode 8 are about be released. However Rick is a very skilled and enthusiastic teacher keeping the energy level high ;-) I'm sure I'll move on to his next course.
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AAnthony Warner
The course is ok. Here are some things to know: -There are more up-to-date tutorials available free on YouTube. -There isn't a teacher/student dynamic. There is little communication from the instructors and the majority of your questions will go unanswered. -The course is seldom updated to reflect the current version of the Swift language, resulting in unknown errors even if you copy the instructor's code exactly. This will greatly confuse early-coders. -The girl's lessons aren't in any way informative. She reads the code line by line as she types it in. The value of her lessons is in seeing what can be done (not how it should be done or why). -The guy's lessons are better; his eagerness is welcome. But he glosses over the significant elements to the code in order to keep it entry-level. After a few months of learning Swift & Xcode outside of his lessons, it becomes obvious how much he leaves out and even misrepresents. He does not teach "best practices." -The subjects are covered so vaguely, you will find it difficult to repeat the lesson-goals on your own projects. On the positive side, if you do all the lessons, or even half of them, you will absolutely know more about coding then when you started. My number one criticism, and what would be the greatest asset of this course if it was improved upon, is that the instructors do not answer one's questions. The best way to learn something is to have a question about it. To wonder, "How do I use a different delegate / data source to populate a CollectionView from a Parse backend?" for example. Nick explains what a delegate and a data source are, but after watching about 50% of the videos, I still couldn't answer that question (and that is such an important part to designing "real" apps). If I were to ask that questions in the communication bar, it would likely go unanswered. The intention of a "course" should be to explain to the students what they need and want to know about the subject matter. This class comes off as more of a seminar.
