Apple_Developer_University

The purpose of this repo is to provide a learning path for those interested in making Apps for the Apple ecosystem. This repo is dynamic and will change as needed in order to povide a best consolidated. If you would like to contribute links or a different structure or path, please do a pull request and submit. All changes that add value to the repo will be considered.

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Overview

Learning to develop apps for the Apple ecosystem is a journey unto itself. It seems that a common starting point is to learn to develop iOS apps. Taking this into consideration, the foundations portion will be geared towards iOS development.

So why is learning iOS development and making your own apps or develop for someone else is so hard. Because you must learn five different topics to get an app into the store: 1) A programming Language; 2) iOS SDK; 3) iTunes Connect; 4) App design; 5) App store marketing; 6) Xcode (The Integrated Development Environment (IDE))

Foundations

If you are completely new to Computer Science and Coding, and are interested in both, start here:

CS50: https://cs50.harvard.edu

If you are just interested in starting to code and develop applications for iOS without getting into the Computer Science realm, start here:

Ray Wenderlich iOS apprentice: https://store.raywenderlich.com/products/ios-apprentice
Hacking with Swift: https://www.hackingwithswift.com/read
Apple's own Book, Free on iBooks: App Development with Swift.

After you've gone through one of those courses, you are ready to understand the why. These two books are the best at it and will serve you as reference from now on:

Big Nerd Ranch Swift: https://www.amazon.com/Swift-Programming-Ranch-Guide-Guides/dp/013461061X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1499888896&sr=8-1&keywords=big+nerd+ranch+swift

Big Nerd Ranch iOS Development: https://www.amazon.com/iOS-Programming-Ranch-Guide-Guides/dp/0134682335/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1499888896&sr=8-2&keywords=big+nerd+ranch+swift

BNR books are top notch and so is their blog, so it is worth checking it out for time to time. https://www.bignerdranch.com

It might be a worthwhile investment to look into Safari Books Online. They provide unlimited access to the majority of Technology books publishers like BNR, O'Reilly, No Starch Press, and Packet Pub. Check them out at https://www.safaribooksonline.com

Foundation Topics

Throughout these books and resources you whould learn the following things:

Swift - Variables and Constants, Loops (For-in, While, Repeat-While), Types, Conditionals(If statements, Switches), Numbers(Integers and Floating Points), Strings, Optionals, Collections (Array, Dictionary, Sets), Closures & Functions, Enumerations, Structures, Class, Initialization, Properties and Methods, and Value vs Reference types.
iOS SDK - Saving information()
Xcode -
General Computer Science Topics - Procedural Programming (Step by Step, line by line programming); Basics of Object Oriented Programming (Encapsulation, Composition, Inheritance, Polymorhphism), Delegation, Abstraction; Algorhythm, Data Types