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Swift Coding and App Development Certificate Program

The Ohio State University – Digital Flagship Program

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This curriculum included 3 distinct courses. I completed 2 of the 3 courses, but as of 10/22, the program closed down to be rebuilt. The last course’s focus was building a complete app from scratch, so there wasn’t much that I missed out on.

Course 1

Course 2

Course 1 Syllabus

This course utilizes the book Develop in Swift Fundamentals.

Unit 1: Coding on the Job Market

  1. Reading: Developer Profiles
  2. Reading: Coding Professional Development
  3. Discussion: Coding on the Job Market

Unit 2: Basics of Swift

  1. Reading: How to use the iBook
  2. Reading: Xcode 11 vs Xcode 10
  3. Reading & Assignment: Section 1.1 – Introduction to Swift and Playgrounds
  4. Reading & Assignment: Section 1.2 – Constants, Variables, and Data Types
  5. Reading & Assignment: Section 1.3 – Operators
  6. Reading & Assignment: Section 1.4 – Control Flow
  7. Reading: Section 1.5 – Xcode
  8. Quiz: Basics of Swift

Unit 3: App Development Process

  1. Reading: App Dev Process Intro
  2. Reading: App Dev Success Stories
  3. Reading: Developer Interview
  4. Quiz: Phases of App Dev Process

Unit 4: Debugging and Problem Solving

  1. Reading & Assignment: Section 1.6 – Building, Running, and Debugging an App
  2. Reading & Assignment: Section 1.7 – Documentation
  3. Quiz: Debugging
  4. Quiz: Documentation

Unit 5: Interface Builder

  1. Reading: Section 1.8 – Interface Builder Basics
  2. Reading: Design and Navigation
  3. Assignment: 1.8 Lab
  4. Assignment: Guided Project - Light
  5. Discussion: Design and Navigation
  6. Assignment: Wireframe

Unit 6a: More Swiftly

  1. Reading & Assignment: Section 2.1 – Strings
  2. Reading & Assignment: Section 2.2 – Functions
  3. Reading & Assignment: Section 2.3 – Structures
  4. Reading & Assignment: Section 2.4 – Classes
  5. Reading & Assignment: Section 2.5 – Collections
  6. Reading & Assignment: Section 2.6 – Loops
  7. Reading & Lab: Section 2.7 – UIKit Survey
  8. Reading & Lab: Section 2.8 – Hobby Tutorial (Media – Images and Text)
  9. Reading & Lab: Section 2.9 – Two Buttons (IBActions and IBOutlets)
  10. Reading & Lab: Section 2.10 – Calculator (Stack Views)
  11. Lab: Guided Project – Apple Pie
  12. Quiz: More Swiftly Chapter 2

Unit 6b: More Swiftly Continued

  1. Reading & Assignment: Section 3.1 – Optionals
  2. Reading & Assignment: Section 3.2 – Type Casting and Inspection
  3. Reading & Assignment: Section 3.3 – Guard
  4. Reading & Assignment: Section 3.4 – Constant and Variable Scope
  5. Reading & Assignment: Section 3.5 – Enumerations
  6. Reading & Lab: Section 3.6 – Login (Segues)
  7. Reading & Lab: Section 3.7 – About Me (Tab Bar Controller)
  8. Reading & Lab: Section 3.8 – Order of Events (View Controller Life Cycle)
  9. Reading & Lab: Section 3.9 – Pizza Delivery
  10. Quiz: More Swiftly Chapter 3

Unit 7: Portfolio Project

  1. Reading: Portfolio Practices
  2. Reading: How to Build a Portfolio
  3. Discussion: Portfolios
  4. Assignment: Create Your Portfolio

Unit 8: App Exercise

  1. Assignment: Guided Project – Personality Quiz

Unit 9: Staying Current

  1. Reading: Swift Updates
  2. Reading: Documented Code
  3. Reading: Further Learning
  4. Reading: Digital Flagship Connections
  5. Discussion: App Projects

Unit 10: Final App Challenge

  1. Reading: Final App Challenge
  2. Assignment: Final App Challenge

Course 1 TL;DR Technical Topics List

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Course 2 Syllabus

This course utilizes the book Develop in Swift Data Collections.

Unit 1: GitHub

  1. Reading: What is GitHub
  2. Reading: Why Use Github
  3. Reading: How to Use GitHub
  4. Assignment: Repository
  5. Quiz: GitHub Basics

Unit 2: Tables and Persistence

  1. Reading & Assignment: Section 1.1 – Protocols
  2. Reading & Lab: Section 1.2 – App Event Count (App Life Cycle Methods)
  3. Reading & Lab: Section 1.3 – MVC
  4. Reading & Lab: Section 1.4 – ISpy (Scroll View and Image View)
  5. Reading & Lab: Section 1.5 – Meal Tracker (Table View)
  6. Reading & Lab: Section 1.6 – Favorite Books (Table View Navigation)
  7. Reading & Lab: Section 1.7 – Emoji Dictionary (Read/Write to File; Data Persistence)
  8. Reading & Lab: Section 1.8 – Home Furniture (System View Controllers - UIActivityViewController, SFSafariViewController, UIAlertController, UIImagePickerController, MFMailComposeViewController)
  9. Reading & Lab: Section 1.9 – Employee Roster (Multiple Table View Controllers with Complex Input Data)
  10. Lab: Guided Project - List
  11. Quiz: Chapter 1

Unit 3: Costs and Processes

  1. Reading: Business App Development Process
  2. Reading: Cost of Business App Development
  3. Discussion: When Not to Build

Unit 4: Working with the Web

  1. Reading: Closures
  2. Reading & Assignment: Section 2.1 – Closures
  3. Reading & Assignment: Section 2.2 – Extensions
  4. Reading & Lab: Section 2.3 – Contest (Practical Animation)
  5. Reading & Lab: Section 2.4 – iTunes Search (HTTP and URL)
  6. Reading & Lab: Section 2.5 – iTunes Search Pt. 2 (Decoding JSON)
  7. Reading & Lab: Section 2.5 – iTunes Search Pt. 3 (Concurrency)
  8. Lab: Guided Project - Restaurant
  9. Quiz: Chapter 2

Unit 5: Firebase

  1. Reading: What is Firebase
  2. Reading: How to Use Firebase
  3. Assignment: Firebase Tutorial
  4. Quiz: Firebase Basics
  5. Reading: Package Managers

Unit 6: App Store

  1. Reading: What is the App Store?
  2. Reading: What Do I Need to Prepare?
  3. Reading: How to Submit to the App Store
  4. Discussion: App Store Process

Unit 7: App Analysis

  1. Reading: UX Design
  2. Reading: UX Research
  3. Reading: Collecting Feedback
  4. Reading: Assessing Feedback
  5. Quiz: UX Design and Feedback

Unit 8: Collaboration

  1. Reading: Collaboration Best Practices
  2. Addignment: Add Features (Git branching, checkout, merge, merge conflicts)
  3. Discussion: Collaboration Experience

Unit 9: Prototyping and Project Planning

  1. Reading: Chapter 4
  2. Lab: Section 6.2 - Prototype Your Own Idea

Unit 10: Final App Challenge

  1. Assignment: Final App Challenge

Course 2 TL;DR Technical Topics List

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