NoiseMaker
Level 3, Ten Lessons
Introduce students to the AV Foundation framework, and show students how to play sounds within an app. Teach asynchronous method calls with audio playback. Facilitate the reduction of repetitive code while leveraging data structures, map and closures.
The Finished App
Familiarize yourself with the project, and demonstrate the app students will build.
Lesson 1
Lead students in adding buttons and controller connections, and demonstrate how to add additional assets to an Xcode project.
Lesson 2
Introduce the AV Foundation framework and the AVAudioPlayer class. Demonstrate importing frameworks.
Lesson 3
Facilitate students in playing sounds with an AVAudioPlayer object.
Lesson 4
Teach students about asynchronous methods with four independent AVAudioPlayer objects.
Lesson 5
Challenge students to analyze controller code that belongs in a model. Facilitate constructing a NoiseMaker model to encapsulate audio playback.
Lesson 6
Discuss timely object instantiation, introduce initialization, and demonstrate the interplay between initializers and properties.
Lesson 7
Challenge students to recognize repetitive code, and demonstrate using data structures to represent collections of objects. Lead a refactoring from loops to map and trailing closures.
Lesson 8
Encourage students to continue reducing repetitive code by leveraging data structures, and provide insight into safely subscripting arrays.
Lesson 9
Teach students about the view Tag attribute, and how to identify senders within controller actions.
Lesson 10
Demonstrate how to construct image sets in an asset catalog, and add images to a user interface.
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