DTC 338 Schedule

DTC 338 11:00pm
Week 1 Intro to App Development
6/20 Native vs. Web Apps (Nicholas)Basic Introduction to the iOS development world (Nicholas)

Creation of apple developer accounts

Development Blogs (Nicholas)

Research Lab (Nicholas)

 

6/22Reading:

iOS Development Quick Start

Setting up Developers studio and tools(Nick)

  • Xcode
  • iOS SDK

Hello World! Lab Exercise(Nick)

Research for Hackers (Nicholas)

 

Week 2 Programming Native Apps
6/27Reading: Code (Lessig) Apple Development
Objective C(Nick and Will)

 

Intro to nimblekit, appcelerator, phonegap

Lab: Install phonegap

6/29  Apple Development & Objective C Continued…Android Development

Android SDK
Java(Nick)

 

Intro to Class Project: Preparing an app for the app store / Writing a simple native app

Week 3 Databases
7/4 Holiday
7/6Blog Post: Code reflection from week 2 Intro to DatabasesCMS (Nicholas)Lab: iOS database tutorial (Nick)
Week 4
7/11Reading: Beautiful Teams: Why ugly teams win Apple App Development: Guest SpeakerLab: using the camera (Nick)

Reading in library course reserves: library.vancouver.wsu.edu/find-course-reserves
PW: 6466kxna

7/13 Android App Development: Guest SpeakerLab: using geolocation (Nick)
Week 5 Phonegap & Marketing
7/18Reading: Rushkoff chapter App Market Best Practices and Trends 

In class exercise: Market Research

In class exercise: App description analysis

 

Homework: Find an example of an excellent app description and a mediocre one.

 

7/20 Phonegap lab 

 

Week 6
7/25 Final ProjectsProduct description exercise

 

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