Learn Swift and iOS Programming to Build iPhone Apps from the Ground Up. No Prior Coding Skills Required!

The goal of this course is to teach anyone how to build an iOS App from the ground up. The course is very project-based and especially designed for beginners with no programming experience. And, if you have some coding experience, this course will take you from coding hobbyist to an intermediate level, ready to launch a new tech career.

You will first learn the fundamentals of the Swift language by examples:

Variables & Constants
Control Flow
Data Types
Object, Classes & Struct
Enum
You will learn the basics of iOS programming with playground demos and challenges. This will give you the solid foundation to start building iPhone Apps.

Next, You will start building simple apps to expand your knowledge and finish with a capstone project: SwiftAgram.  In this final 3-hour+ tutorial, you will apply your accumulated skills to build a Instagram-like, multi-views application with more advanced features, like:

Displaying Contacts in a TableView
Networking to display web content
Importing Images from the Photo Library (UIImagePickerView)
Implementing Facebook User Authentication & Monitoring (Facebook Login SDK)
Enabling Data Persistance and Synchronization with Firebase as a Service Data Persistance (BaaS)


You will be introduced to Firebase as a Cloud Back End Service to manage your app with data persistence and synchronisation. And, you will get a step-by-step guide of how to enable user authentication with your Facebook account with the Facebook Login SDK.

Why take this course ?

This course will set you on your way to becoming a great iOS Developer, where you’ll establish a basic understanding of the iOS ecosystem.

What you will learn:

Working with Classes & Objects
Creating multi-view Applications with Storyboard Segues
Using TableView, Navigation Bars & Toolbars
Adding Interaction & Gestures
Persisting Data
Networking to embed Web Content into you app
Showing user's location & address on a map with MapKitView & Geolocation
Learning iOS Animation with a Beginners guide to add edge to your app


Apps you will be building:

A Todo List Swift App with a TableView, UIDatePicker and the Core Data Framework
A fun MP3 Player with the AV Foundation Framework & AVAudioPlayer Class
A Restaurants App to locate nearby restaurants with the Google places API, Geolocation and MapKitView.
A NewsReader App with the New York Times Developers API to display a list of the most viewed and popular NYT articles