Finishing the Navigation

Today's lesson was unstructured. I had two mentors with me and was going to introduce the absent view controller. This function the students wanted to be sent by the app when a student/parent needs to notify the school they are not there. However the method I wanted to do this with was more complex than what it needed to be and I didnt want the students to learnt it this way.

We had to finish the navigation table which Shaun had already completed by the lesson and Ratuja was happy to follow his lead and work it out herself. Oliver's was asking questions proving he is knowledgable about the interface now and one of the mentors expressed to me how much more confident he was.

Josh was sick.

And this is how we are looking at the moment!!!

We covered maintenance with Disk Utility on the Macs for the students so they can begin to look after their machines themselves.

These children have been pushed quite hard for the first 5 lessons with coding and now as a result they are at a stage where I can ask then to add a framework or look for a particular object and they understand where in the interface I am asking them to go. The xCode IDE can be a little complex and these students are only 13 years old, even if I believe a thirteen year old can do they need to do it for themselves.

We had two youtube videos to watch today. One TEDx talk on a 12 year developer with two apps on the app store.

And one by Thoughtworks one of my favourite companies on the state of mobile delivery and how fast it has developed and particularly what is happening in Africa with mobility. We only needed the first section of this.

Mentor Matt was kind enough to tell the group about his app "CURTIN HELPER" which has had 3000 downloads which equate to about 10% of CURTIN students. Both the mentors are fantastic and I could not ask for better CURTIN students for these high schoolers.

Oh we also have our next phase with the design team as well. Keith Turner will need to colour the icons that the design team mocked up earlier this year....Cant wait.