Big Nerd Ranch Day 05

Day five draws to a close. The course material got much more challenging during the day 4 and 5. Today we continued with the table views exercises we began on Day 4 and expanded on what we had done to include editing table data and saving the information out to the internal disk. We also added an additional screen for editing our table data which was accessible through a new view. Lastly, our application included the ability to utilize the camera to add an image to our data and also present a thumbnail in our table cells. We moved onto Core Animation and Multi-touch. A very intense day.

Even after dinner, a majority of us stayed behind to continue working on the exercises or our own projects. Joe helped out and even gave us a sample look at a game he hopes to publish to the app store. He went into quick details about how the project was structured, and showed us how it contains many of the things we have learned so far.

I spent the time after dinner to redo the UITableView project, because it had so many components, I sped through them the first time, typing more than understanding the code, but this time, I went through the exercises and spent more time on the spots that I didn’t really understand. It’s now past midnight, so I’m headed to bed. Tomorrow is our last full day. We’re going to go over WebKit, Webservices, OpenGL ES and other topics. Tomorrow a few of us are also planning on going to the Banning Mill’s Zip Line’s Tour… I’m a bit apprehensive, since I’m not a fan of heights, but I’m sort of looking at it as a right of passage, after having spent so much time with the iPhone.