Build Your Own iOS App

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Created by: Parham Aarabi

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Overall Score : 40 / 100

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Course Description

In the Build Your Own iOS App capstone you will expand your repertoire of additional features and more advanced functions that may be implemented within the iOS environment. You will refine your development skill set and will apply your accumulated skills over the entire specialization series in an applied application development capstone project. This particular course is project based and structured around you building a high quality app as a capstone to the specialization.Currently this course is taught using Swift 2. The team is aware of the release of Swift 3 and will be making edits to the course in time. Please be aware that at this time the instruction is entirely with Swift 2.

Time: 9h

Instructor Details

Parham Aarabi

2.0 Rating
14 Reviews

Ph.D. (Elec. Eng.) from Stanford in 2001. UofT Professor since 2001. Undergrad degree from UofT in Engineering Science (1998) and M.A.Sc. from UofT (1999). Published over 100 peer-reviewed papers, won a few research/teaching awards including the IEEE Mac Van Valkenburg Early Career Teaching Award, the Gordon R. Slemon Teaching of Design Award, the ECE Professor of the Year award, the Premier's Catalyst Award for Innovation, the Canada Research Chair, and MIT's TR35 "Top Young Innovator" award.

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By Fabricio(Dede) d S on 10-May-16

A Wortlhy Course

By Samuel R on 9-Oct-19

Incredible course!

By Konstantinidis E on 29-Jan-18

Very nice course. I learned alot! Thank you for your nice work! What i would like to be changed though are the following: Probably the course could be updated to the latest Swift language and tools and i would prefer to have more videos and guiding about the final capstone project.

By Mauricio C on 2-May-16

I'm kind of disappointed with this last level. It isn't really what i expected.

By Vctor M C G on 2-May-16

The capstone project had nothing to do with the previous three courses.

By James M O on 23-Oct-16

Nothing much to learn, the videos were rather short. There's no lecture on computing the angles and the full features of the framework. The framework wasn't updated for Swift 3.

By Aggelos G on 3-Oct-16

Why there is no "minus one" star? Because one star is way to much for this course. Stay away!

By Muhammet A on 20-Oct-16

waste of time and money

By Kevin K on 11-May-16

After the first week, the instructors never showed up to answer a single question in the forums. The capstone project itself was disappointing, I learned much more from doing my own app in class #3.I took the Coursera Android specialization, which was eons better than this. I would not recommend this iOS specialization to anyone. I would never again take a MOOC from U of Toronto.

By David Q L on 26-Apr-16

This is a joke.

By Hsing L on 13-May-16

In this capstone project, you're given a framework to work with, and asked to create an app with pretty minimal required criteria. The problem is, there's very little instructions or support, so it feels like a classroom where the instructor said "do whatever you want" and walks out of the door. Overall the specialization feels ill-organized and of questionable quality, and there are plenty of negative sentiments in the forums.

By Peter P on 17-Apr-16

If I could, I would rate it 0/5 stars.Do not, I repeat, DO NOT pay and enroll this course. And you will be disappointed if you do. There, now you have been warned. This part of the specialization has been put together in a haste, without effort and absolutely without any care of teaching. I'm completely shocked and disappointed.In other words:It is a complete joke and a sad excuse for a MOOC. Shame on you University of Toronto!Yes, harsh words, and here's why:The course description does not reflect the contents nor the final assignment. Face tracking? That's pretty far from what I expected from this when I paid $284 for the specialization.In total, there is only 25minutes of video lectures. Really? That's it? It's way too little for a capstone project course.Staff does not care about learners's concerns. Zero effort to respond in the discussion forums. It takes days before there is any response at all.The assignment descriptions and requirements are sparse and vague. Why are we doing face tracking when the description talks about location apis and "putting it all together"?

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