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Play by Play: iOS and Swift 3 from Scratch

by Brian Clark and John Papa

Learn the fundamentals of developing with iOS using Swift and Xcode by building an app to track your favorite movies. The code to follow along with this course is available at github.com/clarkio/ios-favorite-movies.

What you'll learn

This Play by Play helps developers new to iOS and Swift get up and running developing mobile apps. John Papa and Brian Clark provide helpful comparisons for how Swift's unique features relate to other popular frameworks and languages. They'll build an application that allows users to list their favorite movies and search the Open Movie Database to add more favorites to their lists. This app's functionality is a great place to start if you're new to iOS and Swift. You'll learn a little of everything, from the basics of views and layouts, how to work with touch events, add segues between views, and integrate with external data and HTTP. By the end of this course, you'll be ready to expand upon this sample application as well as get started building your own apps for iOS in Swift. The code to follow along with this course is available at github.com/clarkio/ios-favorite-movies.

About the authors

Brian is a Solution Architect Specialist who has been building and architecting software for many years now. His initial focus was on ASP.NET, C#, SQL and WPF, but has since been leveraging technologies such as Angular, Node.js, JavaScript, HTML and CSS. You can find Brian on twitter @_clarkio or at clarkio.com.

John Papa is a dedicated father and husband, a professional Web Developer, and professional storyteller in the technology community. He currently is a Partner GM for Microsoft leading the Growth Ecosystems Cloud Advocacy teams and has formerly worked for Disney on several web and mobile applications ans systems that you may have used. His passions are coding and teaching modern web technologies, running, and enjoying everything Disney with his family. John is a co-host of the Web Rush podcast... more

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