Update Thursday March 26

Schedule

• We will continue to work remotely until May 1. This is subject to change.
• Our Spring Break will be the week of April 13–17. We will work all the other weeks.
• We will have a holiday on Monday, March 30. There will be only 4 assignments next week instead of 5.
• This week's work will be due by 7:30 am on Tuesday, March 31. I suggest you try to turn it in by this Friday so it's not hanging over your head the long weekend.

Communication

I hope to set up a mechanism where we can communicate in real time using some kind of forum. This could be in Google Classroom and it could be in Canvas. (Canvas is better but more of you are familiar with Google Classroom.) Then we can have discussions so you can ask for help and help others. The first step toward making this happen is for you to get the metroed.net email address. So do this right away and let me know whether or not you were successful.

We could also try to have a live session using Zoom or Google Hangouts.

The school may put together a mechanism where you'll have to sign in every day so we can take attendance.

Future activities

We have two main activities to complete the requirements for your certificate, letter of competency, and college credit.

• You need to finish your resume and add it to your online portfolio.
• I will post a video how to do this.
• You need to create a final app in Swift.

Final App Preparation

Most of you do not have a Mac at home to work on a final app. If you do, then you'll be able to start your final app now. If not, we cannot allow you on the school campus and you probably cannot go to your home school or a library to work on your app. So, the strategy is this: between now and May 1 when we hope to be back on campus, we need to do everything possible for your final app except the actual coding. We are going to do this using checkpoints as we have done with other large projects like the poster, logo, and portfolio. You can expect that we will be working on these activities:

• Defining the target audience for your app
• Creating an icon for your app using Adobe Illustrator
• This is why it is important that you sign up for Adobe Illustrator using your metroed.net email address as soon as possible. 
• (Some people have had problems with Adobe Illustrator and we're trying to work out those problems with the Adobe company.)
• Defining every screen for you app.
• This is why you need to finish Lesson 3.9 as soon as possible. The pizza app exercise is your trial run for doing something similar for your own final app.
• Creating a list of all the graphics and sounds your app might need.
• Creating all the graphics your app might need, using Adobe Illustrator.
• Creating any sounds your app might need, probably using Adobe Audition.
• Compiling any data your app might need, such as a list of food banks, homeless shelters, barber shops, or whatever it is your app is about.
• Perhaps a few or many other steps depending on your app.

If you don't have a Mac at home, I suggest you plan to mock up your app as a web app using HTML and JavaScript. Then when we are back in the classroom, you can make a Swift version. This is actually a very good practice, because then Apple users will be able to use a native app, and Android users will still be able to run the web app.