Big Nerd Ranch Day 04

Today was a big day. We learned to work with the Accelerometer, detect and handle rotation, work with multiple views using tabbed views and the navigation bar, and lastly we learned to work with data and table views. Today was probably one of the more grueling days so far. It all made sense, but it was an incredible amount of detail. Particularly hard today was working with Table Views, which is pretty essential in writing any iPhone application. We made an app that loaded data from a random object generator and put them into a table view, which we then coded to allow us to delete and add data to the table, then adding a screen which let us modify records. Aaron Hillegass came tonight and reviewed some Objective-C material with us. We mainly went over memroy management again, and reinforced how Objective-C is very pointer centric; a concept I need to come to grips with, since Actionscript and Java don’t use this concept.

Tomorrow, after giving us time to continue with the Table Views exercises, we go into the Camera, and I think we’ll also begin to get into Core Animation.