mikeandike / agoodstart

The very first project for iOS pre-course.

AGoodStart

The very first project for iOS pre-course.

Let's get started

Note: Feel free to use either language (Swift or Objective-C) for the pre-course projects. Base projects will be included for each.

Also: The instructions are for using Terminal however you should feel free to use a GUI application for Git. I love and use Tower it's a paid app ($59) with a trial. If you try and really like Tower, we’ll cover the cost of it. Let us know at [email protected] and we’ll get you a license. Others use SourceTree (free) or GitHub app (free).

You also have 2 options with each project. You can create a project from scratch and push it to your GitHub account on your own, or you can fork the repositories we provide and update them with your code.

Resources:

• Before you start here, read the "Setup & Git" intro.
• Get familiar with Xcode by creating your first Xcode project. Follow along with CodeWithChris.com Part 1 and Part 2.

Step 1: Download Xcode

• Gotta have Xcode. If you don't, go download it from the App Store now. It doesn't matter if you're using 5 or 6, but we'll use 6 in class.

Step 2: Start your project

Option 1: Create the project in Xcode

• In the launch view of Xcode click Create A New Project or click File->New->New Project
• Store it in a 'code' folder (developer hint)
• We actually only care about an Empty application for the next few projects. Xcode 6 removes this option, so you can create a Single View Application if you want.
• In GitHub create a repository on your account called AGoodStart
• Xcode already created the repository for you, and created an initial commit
• Navigate to the project folder via terminal (here is a tutorial if you don't know how)
• Get the https url on the right side of your project window
• Then add the remote repository and push to it:
  • git remote add origin [email protected]:my_project.git [this is your project url]
  • git push -u origin master

Option 2: Clone this project down to your computer

• In GitHub click the "Fork" button on the upper right corner of this project
• Navigate in terminal to where you want to put the project (hopefully a special folder just for 'code')
• Get the https url on the right side of your project window
• Then clone down the folder:
  • git clone [email protected]:my_project.git my_project
  • cd my_project

Step 3: Hello World

• You should have an AppDelegate file to work with (.swift or .m file is where we'll be working)
• You may wonder where to write code. When the application finishes launching it will start in the AppDelegate and call the "didFinishLaunchingWithOptions" method. You'll put code in there.
• In the AppDelegate file add a line to print the words "Hello World" to the console.
• Commit and push your code to GitHub
  • git add .
  • git commit -m “Add log Hello World”

Completion:

• Not much should happen. In fact, the iPhone Simulator should be blank. For our pre-course projects, you'll be looking in the console of Xcode to see the results. You should see 'Hello World' printed in the bottom pane of Xcode.
• Feel free to print anything you want. The point of this project is to make sure you have a working Xcode and that you can get through the Git workflow.
• You'll share your repo of this project (and all of the others throughout the course) with your mentor