Bloc offers online intensive apprenticeships in development and design. Learn more at www.bloc.io/ios As you may recall, Apple SVP Craig Federighi unveiled Swift, a long-term replacement for Objective C, at Apple's annual developers conference just six weeks ago. Since then, the developer community has been studying the Swift language, and here at Bloc we've been hard at work updating our iOS curriculum. In this 45 minute TechTalk, Bloc Course Director Stan Idesis will go over the basics of Swift, differences between Swift and Objective-C, and how to create your first app using Swift. Building Your First Swift App Intro to Swift Stan will begin by covering a the basics of the Swift programming language. Next, Stan will compare and contrast Swift with Objective-C. How an App Fits Together It's important to understand how an app fits together. Stan will walk you through Swiftris - a replica of Tetris that he created using Swift. He'll go over the iOS Developer Environment, the languages required, and show you a working demo of Swiftris. Q&A Stan will end by answering questions about iOS Development, Swift, and Bloc.

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3. Intro
About Stan
● Course Director at Bloc
● Founder of Playerful, a cross-device gamification platform
● Mobile Developer at Kwarter working on apps for Budweiser, NFL
Fan Zone, and more
● Zynga Mobile Developer on “Words With Friends” Franchise
About Bloc
● Immersive, online mentorship courses in web dev, mobile dev,
design
About Swift
● 8 week old language for iOS Development
● This is a brief intro!

4. Agenda
We will cover:
1. Should I learn Objective-C or Swift?
2. Side-by-Side Comparison of Swift vs. Objective-C
3. How an iOS App Fits Together
4. Basics of Swift - Demo in Playground
5. Tour of Swiftris
a. Game Logic
b. SpriteKit
c. User Interface
6. Bloc iOS Course Syllabus
7. Q&A

5. Swift or Objective-C
1. Learning Swift Isn’t The Whole Ballgame
a. Xcode and Frameworks
b. iOS SDK
c. SpriteKit and Game Center
2. Businesses Will Continue to Need Objective-C Developers
a. 1.2 million apps in the app store currently, and only 1 (Apple’s WWDC app) is currently
written in Swift
b. It will be time-consuming and expensive for businesses to migrate
3. Community speaks in Objective-C
a. Post by Aaron Hillegass of Big Nerd Ranch
4. Frameworks are written in Objective-C
5. Objective-C is stable and well tested

6. Side-by-Side Comparison
Here’s an example from a recent Fast Company article: To create a record of people’s favorite
numbers would look something like this in Objective-C:
NSDictionary *favoriteNumbers = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:[NSNumber
numberWithInteger:7], @"Jane", [NSNumber numberWithInteger:21], @"Bob", [NSNumber
numberWithInteger:99], @"Sarah", nil]];
That same code in Swift would actually be far more straightforward:
var favoriteNumbers = ["Jane": 7, "Bob": 21, "Sarah": 99]

7. How an iOS App Fits Together:
Swiftris
● User Interface
○ Storyboard File and Xibs
○ Images, Sounds, Misc. assets
● Client Code
○ Objective-C or Swift
■ Game Logic
○ iOS SDK - a collection of APIs that do a lot of work for you
■ SpriteKit - an engine for 2D gaming physics and visualization
● Back-End
○ Some apps have a back-end e.g. Instagram
○ Game Center

8. Xcode 6 Beta 4

9. Demo

10. Bloc iOS Syllabus
www.bloc.io/ios/syllabus

11. Q&A
Free eBook: www.bloc.io/swiftris
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