Welcome to Whalen On The Web
CURRICULUM
This project-based curriculum is designed to provide an experiential learning opportunity where you build real mobile applications. The apps students build grow in complexity throughout the year, culminating in an app showcase, where students demonstrate an app they built. Students leave the class with a portfolio of apps and a collection of skills highly valued in the workplace today.
STUDENT OUTCOMES
By the end of the program, students should be able to:
- Use the Swift programming language to develop basic iOS applications.
- Apply fundamental logical thinking and programming skills to program working iOS applications.
- Implement common Apple frameworks and design patterns in developing iOS apps.
- Use professional software development tools and professional project management strategies to design, develop, and manage iOS apps.
- Employ the necessary social-emotional skills necessary for career-ready software development and collaboration in a team.
Course Content semester 1
Hello World App
- Text
- Shapes
- StackViews
- Images
- Modifiers
Multiply App
- Algorithmic Thinking
- Variables & Constants
- Data Types
- Operators
- Text Fields
- Buttons & Labels
Final Grade Calculator App
- Conditionals
- Functions
- Views & Navigation
- Control Flow
- Events & Gestures
Word Game
- Classes & Structs
- Property Wrappers
- Strings
- AlertViews
COURSE CONTENT SEMESTER 2
Rock, Papers,
Scissors Game
- Arrays
- Dictionaries
- Loops
- Web Links
- Animation
Assignment
Notebook App
- Lists
- Optionals
- Protocols
- Persistence
Map Location
App
- Toolbars
- MapKit
- Core Location
Breakout (Optional)
Build Your Own App
- Games
- SpriteKit
- Agile
- Scrum
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The Leander Independent School District offers Career and Technical Education Programs in sixteen different career cluster areas. Admission to these programs is based on interests and aptitude, age appropriateness, and available class space.
It is the policy of Leander Independent School District not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex or handicap in its vocational programs, services or activities as required by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended; Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972; and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended.
Leander Independent School District will take steps to assure that lack of English language skills will not be a barrier to admission and participation in all educational and vocational programs.
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