Create Slot Machine iPhone APP in 3 hours

Learning by doing is the best policy for education. This course lead you step by step to use Objective-C & Xcode for fun

Created byRyan Chung

Last updated 11/2012

English

What you'll learn

By the end of the course, you will be able to use simple components to create a slot machine on iPhone
In this course, you will learn Rows and Components in UIPickerView, Sound Effect, StoryBoard & Code

Course content

2 sections • 5 lectures • 48m total length

Promo Video0:54
Promo Video

PickerView Basic11:37
Lecture 1 Picker View Basic
This lecture is going to show you how the iOS PickerView component works, and how the Storyboard working with the code part. In this lecture, we are going to lead you step by step to create a simple PickerView, and know how the data reveal on the row in component on PickerView!
Add more components!9:01
Lecture 2 Add More Components!
In this lecture, we are going to add more components in your pickerView. Since typical slot machine got 3 components there, we need to make our pickerView more like slot machine. So we add 2 more components, also we need to know how to store each component's data item to array.
Using picture for Row at Picker15:52
Lecture 3 Using Picture For Row At Picker
This lecture is the kernel part of this course. We are going to use picture to replace the text on row in each components at Picker View. And add some tricks to make the slot machine works. How to use images on picker view? How to make it roll? How to prevent showing empty rows? We are going to lead you step by step to solve all questions!
Add sound effect!10:40
Lecture 4 Add Sound Effect!
This lecture is going to make this project better by adjusting layout and adding sound effect. So you will learn how to use Storyboard to move components, set up properties, change color and size. Then we will lead you how to add sound effect to your project. After those decoration tasks, your slot machine looks more cool and when you click the "SPIN" button, you can hear the sound effect!

Requirements

Attention! The instructor speaks CHINESE, but with subtitles in English
You can watch the Lecture 1 to try, it's FREE!!
Xcode 4.5
Mac OS X Lion / Mountain Lion

Description

What is the course about?

This course is going to lead you to create iPhone APP slot machine by using simple iOS component in 3 hours.

How the learning is structured, and why it's interesting for someone to take?

Learning by doing is the best policy! So this course is designed step by step, you can code just follow the instruction, and get what you want. So even yo don't really understand all syntax for Objective-C, you can still enjoy the process and result by our course.

Kind of materials found in the course

The materials for this course are :

1.Video. High resolution (1280x800) video, you can check the code in video clearly.

2.PDF. Slides, you can view it page by page, actually all steps are here, you can follow it and coding by yourself

How long it will take to complete the course.

Actually the tutorial videos are only 4 lectures, totally around 1 hour. But we think you need time to practice and follow, so roughly you need 3 hour to get all things done.

Who this course is for:

Anyone who interested in Creating Slot Machine on iPhone

Create Slot Machine iPhone APP in 3 hours

What you'll learn

Course content

Promo Video1 lecture • 1min