Programming Apple Devices

• 26 hrs lectures
• 12 hrs seminar
• 14 hrs projects

• 70 pts final exam
• 30 pts projects

The course is focused to give a very deep insight to concepts of programming of Apple devices, i. e. personal computers with MacOS operating system and mobile devices (phones, tablets, watches) based on iOS. Moreover, the course studies the architecture of software libraries and programming concepts which could be an inspiration in overall programming practice, no matter what platform, operating system or language is employed. Finally, the course teaches programming in Swift language. 
Understanding the principles of programming applications for macOS, iOS, tvOS and watchOS. Concepts of multi-threaded applications. Programming in Swift. Integrating DB engines to the MVC concept of applications. Students will learn the concept of Swift programming language and its system libraries. They might employ these concepts in their jobs.

• Neuburg, M.: Programming iOS 9: Dive Deep into Views, View Controllers, and Frameworks. O'Reilly Media, 2015.
• Mathias, M., Gallagher, J.: Swift Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (2nd Edition). Big Nerd Ranch Guides, 2016.

1. Introduction. Historical backgrounds of Apple in the context of other computer companies.
2. Objective-C in the context of C/C++ and Smalltalk. Dynamic memory allocation, object referencing and garbage collecting.
3. Introduction to Swift programming language. Basic libraries with collections and algorithms (Foundation).
4. Model-View-Controller (MVC) paradigm for developing event-driven applications. Basic Controllers (Table, TabBar, Master-Detail).
5. Development of user applications for mobile devices. Elements of User Interface (Cocoa Touch library).
6. Programming of multithreaded applications. Concepts of threads management (GCD). Applications main control. Asynchronous calls. Modelling of multithreaded applications.
7. Data encoding in applications. Creating structured documents. Synchronization of documents. Inter-application message passing (Key-Value Observing, KVO).
8. The architecture of object data storage (CoreData). The synchronous connection of the database and application control via KVO.
9. Multiuser applications with a central database (CloudKit). The asynchronous connection of the database and application control via GCD.
10. Application lifecycle in the context of the operation system. User configurations. Runtime memory optimizations.
11. Simulation kernel for games development (SpriteKit, SceneKit). Modelling of the physical environment and mechanics.
12. Desktop applications architecture. Runtime interconnection of a mobile and desktop application.
13. Applications development for tvOS and watchOS.

1. Programming in Swift. Using XCode IDE.
2. Foundation library in examples. Data collections and basic algorithms.
3. Application for iOS. Implementing DataSource and Delegate objects.
4. Multithreaded applications. Message passing within the application. Key-Value Observing. Documents.
5. Application based on CoreData.
6. Application based on CloudKit.

1. Design and implementation of an application with given features.

At least 15 points (out of 30) received from the project.

Individual project and the final exam. The final exam has two alternatives.  he minimal number of points which can be obtained from the final exam is 25. Otherwise, no points will be assigned to a student.