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Paul Hegarty's updated CS193p SwiftUI course released by Stanford

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Re: Paul Hegarty's updated CS193p SwiftUI course released by Stanford

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Post by boulos »

mikeyk wrote: post #4

I took CS193P when it was first offered in 2007; one of my favorite classes at Stanford because it was so hands-on. At the time few people had iPhones, so everyone in the class got a free iPod Touch for development. My final project was a photo sharing app with a Polaroid shake to reveal mechanic… lightly influenced Instagram which Kevin and I built a few years later!

I can't seem to find the 2007 webpage (maybe it was one of the wiki-based ones?) but the 2008 syllabus looked very hands on: https://web.archive.org/web/20081208171743/http://stanford.e...

I never took 193p, but I always found 148 to be hands on, and I made it very hands on for the year I contributed: https://web.archive.org/web/20130522184434/https://graphics.... .

I regret that we put my subdivision assignment as the last one, and we allowed students to skip one assignment. Most students skipped it, but those that did the work thought it was super cool to have their own subdivision tool for making smooth meshes.

Re: Paul Hegarty's updated CS193p SwiftUI course released by Stanford

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Post by brazukadev »

iberator wrote: post #10
mikeyk wrote: post #4

I took CS193P when it was first offered in 2007; one of my favorite classes at Stanford because it was so hands-on. At the time few people had iPhones, so everyone in the class got a free iPod Touch for development. My final project was a photo sharing app with a Polaroid shake to reveal mechanic… lightly influenced Instagram which Kevin and I built a few years later!

Wow. Thank you for your service

Yeah. Instagram was lovely. It might be disheartening to see what it became, what it does to people's minds for a profit, the costs for society as a whole.

Re: Paul Hegarty's updated CS193p SwiftUI course released by Stanford

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Post by mobiledev2014 »

This course was integral in kicking off my career over a decade ago. I think there's no better way to learn to build an iOS app, and the fact that it's free is a true gift. Pre-reqs are in the first lecture:

-Experience writing code (100% of the work in this course involves programming) -At least CS106A (Programming Methodology) + CS106B or X (Programming Abstractions) and CS107 (Computer Organization & Systems); CS108 (Object Oriented Programming), CS43 (Functional Programming Abstractions), CS11O (Principles of Computer Systems), CS147 (Introduction to Human Computer Interaction Design) are awesome! -Know some "structured" programming paradigm, e.g. OOP or Functional Programming -Preferably you know more than one language (cause you're gonna learn a new one here!)

Re: Paul Hegarty's updated CS193p SwiftUI course released by Stanford

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Post by rubansk »

I love cs193p! Paul Hegarty is an incredible teacher. I did the course twice [1], first in 2020 as a programming noob who just threw everything into one file. His teaching of MVVM was my first introduction to proper software architecture. Then I went through it again last year as a refresher before building my first app and even on the second run, his lectures were fun to listen to.

[1] https://github.com/sk-ruban/CS193p

Re: Paul Hegarty's updated CS193p SwiftUI course released by Stanford

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Post by greentea23 »

neilv wrote: post #7

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When I was in school, the corporate shill language was MATLAB, and even today not every program has moved on to greener pastures (Python/numpy, Julia). But doesn't Swiftui support Android now? https://github.com/skiptools/skip, I'm extremely skeptical and critical of anything Apple does, and I don't like programming languages without critical mass of community and corporate contributers, but seems like Swift is going in the right direction here.

Re: Paul Hegarty's updated CS193p SwiftUI course released by Stanford

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Post by canyp »

I am surprised that a university with the renown of Stanford would have a course specifically on "the fundamentals of how to build applications for iPhone and iPad using SwiftUI." Not even mobile UI/UX, or UI/UX principles in general; straight up yolo iOS.

How do people not find this absolutely egregious?

At my uni, we organized protests for much smaller intrusions of corporate interests into education.

Is Stanford not much better than a bootcamp these days?

Re: Paul Hegarty's updated CS193p SwiftUI course released by Stanford

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Post by bbrmaley »

mikeyk wrote: post #4

I took CS193P when it was first offered in 2007; one of my favorite classes at Stanford because it was so hands-on. At the time few people had iPhones, so everyone in the class got a free iPod Touch for development. My final project was a photo sharing app with a Polaroid shake to reveal mechanic… lightly influenced Instagram which Kevin and I built a few years later!

how did course exist in 2007 ? App Store and sdk was released in 2008

Re: Paul Hegarty's updated CS193p SwiftUI course released by Stanford

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Post by wahnfrieden »

greentea23 wrote: post #16
neilv wrote: post #7

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When I was in school, the corporate shill language was MATLAB, and even today not every program has moved on to greener pastures (Python/numpy, Julia). But doesn't Swiftui support Android now? https://github.com/skiptools/skip , I'm extremely skeptical and critical of anything Apple does, and I don't like programming languages without critical mass of community and corporate contributers, but seems like Swift is goin…

https://swiftcrossui.dev is also promising for somewhat SwiftUI compatible APIs across desktop OSs
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