Students want to learn to build apps, but many curricula require multiple classes before an app-course elective. This class was designed to bring new-to-coding students from zero experience to building full-stack, social apps, in a single semester. As a flipped class, the secondary goal is to allow faculty to offer the course while minimizing prep, eliminating traditional learning lectures, and providing materials that turn a "heavy lift" coding course into a far less taxing teaching effort.
Skill up your students for entrepreneurship and high-quality jobs/internships in a single semester, and do it with a course that will require no additional lectures + where class is simply presenting exercises + then showing the exercise solutions. Designed for flipped class work, the program also works well for online learning, independent study students (IS, CS, entrepreneurship) and has been used in a four week summer bootcamp setting.
Syllabus with schedule of weekly, assigned videos, solutions videos for prior mid-terms and exams, and a "no-coder left behind" grading approach that leads to fewer discouraged students + more students leaving the class with genuine skills, can be found at: http://bit.ly/prof-g-swift-syllabus
You can see compilation videos of students presenting their end-of-semester in several videos at the bottom of the page at:
https://gallaugher.com/swift
The older videos with in-person presentations may be the most interesting, but there is one online-only COVID-semester student app showcase, as well.
I've found fewer students are discouraged, students learn more, and evaluations are stellar using this approach. Successful students have launched their own apps in the iOS app store, and have secured engineering jobs and internships with leading tech firms, including Amazon and Google.
Also - for Jesuit Schools, one of our students created a virtual Ignatian Pilgrimage for the Boston College Church in the 21st Century initiative. Find out more, here: https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/centers/iajs/programs/Journey-with-ig…
All 100+ step-by-step videos for this zero-to-full-stack iOS course are available online at the YouTube playlist:
https://bit.ly/prof-g-swift
Material is ideal for faculty teaching flipped or remote courses, as well as for independent learners. Now in it's fourth iteration, by the end of the semester a student who is new to programming will have built several apps, the final one being a true social app using Google Cloud Firestore, Firebase Storage, secure login, and Places Autocomplete to create a Yelp-like social app with shared data. Any student with a Mac capable of running Apple's free Xcode software can complete the program, as Xcode includes an iOS Simulator. A companion text is also available at: https://gallaugher.com/swift