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I'm sure this is great content, but the usage of Comic Sans for the slides really brings that first impression down.
I'm assuming you need a Mac computer to develop ios applications? I have an iphone and ipad but I won't purchase their computers.
Is it weird that a /university/ is offering this course on how to work with a specific commercial product? Shouldn't this be the domain of Apple itself or a company that specialises in training?
My university has been offering seminars on how to use Matlab for years. They also offer a course on getting you proficient in SolidWorks. I get your point that it should be offered by a company that specializes in training, but it's nice when universities go beyond pure theoretical concepts and teach things that can be used for side-projects.
Haven't there been free iphone dev courses from stanford for free for over a decade? I recall iTunesU hosting them, and perhaps Coursera/EdX, and their own website etc. Which is great, of course, but is this different?
Has anyone succeded to make a living from app purchases? I am really interested to follow up on it, just dont know if it will be. enough to cover my frigging expenses. (Main question is: How much is left after all the other guys get their due)
That was true of my last developer job too, where I was (primarily) a Mac developer. There, most of our sales were direct, ie. not on the Mac App Store (we did have some MAS income).
That said, it's pretty hard to become successful through app store sales alone, and you definitely can't rely solely on the app store to do your marketing, promotion, etc. The app store is a distribution channel, and if you get lucky, you can get promotional value out of it, particularly if Apple features your app, but it doesn't replace traditional marketing strategies.
Is it weird that a /university/ is offering this course on how to work with a specific commercial product? Shouldn't this be the domain of Apple itself or a company that specialises in training?
Since this is posted here I'll ask a question that has been bugging me for the last year: Who does the captions on these YouTube videos? Is it automated? I ask because every CS193p video starts with the same opening scene/music and the caption describing the music is different on every single one . Is this an auto-caption algorithm just getting it wrong? Or is there a person having fun behind the scenes waiting for s…
As a YT creator, it is possible to upload your own captions if you have any transcribed, which will then be used in place of the automatic ones. But 99.9% of YT videos are using automatic captions.
Edit: Ok, I started watching the first video in this series and these are manually uploaded captions. So Stanford got the videos transcribed and manually uploaded the captions to Youtube. I wonder if various students did the captioning. So each student described the music differently. I laughed because the first video describes the music as "Regal Music".