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CS193p: Developing Apps for iOS

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Re: CS193p: Developing Apps for iOS

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Post by acomjean »

kardos wrote: post #29

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?

Its not completely uncommon. Sometimes its very specific the tooling you use. In this case the fact that this knowledge is going to benefit one particular company might be seen as problematic. You aren't going to use these skills in Linux or Windows development.

A lot of programming classes utilized specific tech (The Extension school at the University I work at teaches classes on React and Vue and Laravel, R, Python....) These are cross-platform tools and generally free.

I think it can be useful to have this knowledge out there. The parts of it that are good might end up in Open Source projects or give people ideas of different ways of doing things.

Re: CS193p: Developing Apps for iOS

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Post by blintz »

elliekelly wrote: post #9

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…

Stanford hires students to transcribe all classes that are also available through SCPD. My suspicion is that some bored student out there is having some fun.

Re: CS193p: Developing Apps for iOS

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Post by acomjean »

DavidAdams wrote: post #49
kardos wrote: post #29

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?

When I was an English major we studied a bunch of commercial products, and we had to buy them from huge corporations. Sometimes the authors of those products were alive enough to actually receive a royalty, sometimes not.

I had to buy HP32s calculator as an undergrad. That thing is great but pricy for a university student.

I imagine for this class owning a mac is a minimal requirement.

I think your talking about books though.. I didn't like it when Profs used there own books.

Re: CS193p: Developing Apps for iOS

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Post by DavideNL »

iscrewyou wrote: post #14
omarhaneef wrote: post #4

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?

From the article: “ Stanford has made these lecture videos available to all by posting them on its YouTube channel (links below). This website was set up to give everyone access to the supporting material that was distributed to students during the quarter (homework, demo code, etc.).”

> the supporting material

This was also present in the itunes-u courses in the past

Re: CS193p: Developing Apps for iOS

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Post by seshagiric »

kardos wrote: post #29

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?

If it helps someone be better prepared for the job market then why not? Should colleges stop teaching Java or C# because they are 'owned' by commercial entities?

Re: CS193p: Developing Apps for iOS

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Post by jonas21 »

I'm so glad that Paul Hegarty is teaching this. Not only does he know the material through experience (I think he was an early employee at NeXT and continued on at Apple), he also explains things really well and works through lots of examples. It's also clear that he enjoys teaching the course, which makes a big difference.

I watched an earlier iteration of the course, and it's the reason I know iOS development today. I don't often write reviews (and certainly not on HN), but I absolutely have to recommended this course for anyone interested in learning mobile development.

Re: CS193p: Developing Apps for iOS

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Post by notRobot »

abawany wrote: post #40
LolWolf wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, these are (mostly?) manual (often done by students working with SCPD, if I recall correctly). Any student can sign up and record for a class after some basic training, which I think can also include CC'ing some parts of it. It is definitely someone just having a bit of fun :)

I think you are right - people sometimes have too much fun with subtitles: videos from https://www.youtube.com/technologyconnections typically subtitle the jazz at the end of the videos with a relevant adjective (e.g. 'cool jazz' or something for a video on HVAC operations.)

I know for a fact that Alec either transcribes those videos himself (not hard to do from a script he already writes for himself), or gets it done by someone else before uploading the video.

I'm any case, they're always uploaded at the same time as the main video.

Also, YouTube recently removed the ability for individual users to contribute to captions of creators. There was a thread on HN about it.

Re: CS193p: Developing Apps for iOS

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Post by UK-Al05 »

MichaelMoser123 wrote: post #28

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)

I think in the early days it used to be common...
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