I'm already starting to get used to office life. Hehe. Looks like we're gonna start on development real soon.
We went through the questions given to us with Kevin today. Learnt much more things than I did yesterday. At least now I know that I have the right concepts.
Kevin then went through with us some of the necessary things that we need to know about the tools that we'd be using for development. Things like the Xcode and the Interface Builder. Not forgetting that I finally know that SDK and API are actually quite similar. I've always thought that they were different -.- We also touched on design patterns, particularly the MVC (Model View Controller). Looks like we would have to put this into use when development starts. Looking forward to that!
Managed to properly setup iChat to actually be able to chat. A*Star blocked some of the ports, hence, once the changing of ports for that application is done, problem solved!
Just went through the first Podcast lecture on iPhone Application Development by Stanford University with Zac. Makes me feel like I'm back in the days where we had lectures for our course modules. Podcasts are really useful, and the lecture we went through actually proved that point :) looks like iTunes would be my good buddy too.
"Podcasts are very useful, especially for programmers." Keep that in mind!
Should be going for lunch soon with Kevin and Zac, and heading for IKEA as well. Setting up the lab after lunch!
Time check: 11.45 am.
Time check: 1.20 p.m.
Back from lunch with Kevin, Bernard and Zac. Went to IKEA and bought some plants to liven up the room. Had Subway for lunch :)
Cleaned up the lab and got the plants ready to be placed on our desks! Will upload the pictures soon~
Wow... Finally done the installations for iLife, iWork, Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6, and iPhone SDK with Xcode. Only managed to start trying out the demonstration in lecture 1 at around 5 pm.
Tinkered around with Xcode and the Interface Builder to work on the demo project. Met with some problems. The interface we see is somewhat different from what is being shown in the demo. Still, we managed to figure it out. 3 minds (Kevin, Zac and I) work better than 1 :) Once we managed to get the project working, Kevin explained to us in further details with regards to what we have done. He's really good at explanations! I'm sure I'll be able to learn lots of things throughout this journey.
Gonna finish up on the final bits of installations and getting off from work. Don't think we'll be leaving at 5.30 pm though. Maybe around 6 pm? The crowd is so scary at 5.30 pm!!!
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