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WEEKLY GRADES AND STUDENT COMMENTS
Week 15 - December 05, 2024
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TAs are very helpful. |
Week 14 - November 21, 2024
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Week 13 - November 14, 2024
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| I feel like we get totally different stuff compared to the practice exams and also teaching in mid exam is just crazy. confused |
| The extra time on the next morning is greatly appreciated. :) This exam felt a bit more reasonably scoped than the last (and completable were it not for the ML hangup that halted everybody). |
| I would suggest for the future assignments and future exams for this class. To have a detailed description about the question, also, the resources required to solve the problem. Because in three hours, you want to focus more on solving the problem rather than thinking of where is the end point for API. Overall, the exam wasn’t that difficult. But it became time consuming and confusing because the question wasn’t vague. |
| I think the exam itself and what it covered wasn't insanely difficult especially if you attend class. I think the issues stem from Xcode itself, and how it functions with Swift and SwiftUI. I think there are many unintuitive errors which can cause roadblocks in the process since the exam itself was fine. |
| Description could have been better if it said that we need to run the app on our macbook. |
| Api and Model prediction part took very long to get data predicted and output on screen as intended. |
Week 12 - November 07, 2024
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Week 11 - October 30, 2024
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Week 10 - October 24, 2024
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It was a good day.
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Great project presentations.
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Received good comments from professor and TA about the Beta app and changes needed for final app.
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Comments and suggestions from professor allowed me to understand what should be changed within our App.
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Week 9 - October 17, 2024
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exam was doable in given time.
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Week 8 - October 10, 2024
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Not really a comment about the class, rather an inquiry. Would it be possible to get more than 7 points back for fixing the design of our project app? Perhaps 50% if the proper changes are made? |
Week 7 - October 03, 2024
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Hi, I think it would have been nice if we were able to do presentations for our app specification / mockup / prototype before it was due so that we can receive feedback and improve upon it before then. It would also be cool if we have the opportunity to revise and resubmit our app specification based on the given feedback to ensure we are on the right track. Thanks. |
Week 6 - September 26, 2024
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Week 5 - September 19, 2024
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Week 4 - September 12, 2024
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Week 3 - September 5, 2024
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Week 2 - August 29, 2024
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Week 1 - August 22, 2024
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WEEKLY GRADES AND STUDENT COMMENTS
Week 13 - November 17, 2023
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MacinCloud would not allow me to run the simulator. I spent well over thirty minuets trying to get the simulator to run. I am not sure about what was submitted because of this and I know this will effect my grade. The amount of work in preparing for these exams are not shown due to the inconsistent behavior of MacinCloud. I do not believe MacinCloud should be recommended to students for Exams. |
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Great exam, the topic was interesting (NLP, watchOS) and the difficulty was fair, since we were given multiple opportunities to practice on similar assignments (hw8 and last year's exam). In my opinion this was the best exam this semester! |
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I think this was a good exam, but I would think that it might be better if next year you have a homework assignment dealing with applying image filters. |
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The exam is good , cover a lot of useful technicals skill. |
Week 12 - November 09, 2023
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I appreciate the context Dr. Pavlidis gave on SwiftUI vs UIKit during the lecture. The main homework requirements were straightforward thanks to the similarity of the in-class assignment, but the bonuses were a huge step up in difficulty - there were some fun ideas there, but seemed too demanding to implement during this busy time of the semester. |
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Interesting topics this week |
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I disliked this week's class and in-class exercise. I think we wasted too much time on trivial stuff such as formatting. We should focussed more on syncService rather than keep that as an afterthought. |
Week 11 - November 02, 2023
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Fun class as always, these interactive presentations have been my favorite part of this class so far. Seeing what other students came up with and how their app design progresses is really interesting. It's also a practical opportunity for students to get live questions and critique, similar to what they might get in a pair programming session or QA / code review at an actual job.
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Good week, and it seems like everyone did a much better job this week on the beta app
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It was great seeing al the other apps. the class was overall a good presentation day.
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Week 10 - October 26, 2023
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Fun topic and assignment, watchOS is pretty cool. |
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I did not like this week's in-class app. I think we should've focused more on the development of the app for the Apple Watch instead of the iPhone app. Regardless, would appreciate if we could use SwiftUI more. |
Week 9 - October 19, 2023
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The difficulty level of this exam was good.
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The sample really helped with the easier parts of this assignment while the filtering part was new but not impossible to tackle. I think it was a perfectly balanced test
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The exam was fair especially since a review was given. I personally did not do the review and found the exam a little challenging.
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I think that the exams would benefit from the colors and font sizes and such being all posted on the .pdf. This one was very nice because it had the font sizes posted I might be overestimating the importance of these things, it's possible they don't impact the grades really. But if they do impact the grade, I think it would be nice if the colors and such were provided as RGB or hex codes or whatever on the pdf. Otherwise it was a good exam, I thought it was fun and suited the amount of time we had.
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Perfect difficulty! Manageable Within the given timeframe. Bonus dragged out the exam to the last second. exam two practice was very helpful and help keep the exam doable
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It's an interesting exam
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Much better!
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Not too hard nor easy. Good
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Much easier than the last exam.
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This exam was much more manageable than the previous one. There was a lot of overlap with the homework assignments and the sample exam (thank you for providing this). I have come to dislike working with maps in iOS, since there are so many different ways to implement similar (but not quite the same) functionality (ex. MapPin, MapMarker, MapAnnotation, and MKPointAnnotation). But, maps are still an important concept, and I'm glad they were covered in-class. Overall, good exam and practical topics.
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This exam was a lot more straightforward compared to the last exam. I would say it's on the easier side but it does test us on all the topics we have covered so far.
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Not too easy, and not too hard. Bonus was a bit tricky, but that's just because I couldn't find permissions
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Week 8 - October 12, 2023
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I think this week's exercise should have been done in SwiftUI. Regardless, the code should be provided in both, SwiftUI and UIKit. Would also appreciate if there could an explanation of the code in the weekly exercises. |
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Considering most of the class uses swiftUI, a mapkit example in swiftUI would be nice. I'm really struggling on the homework because the apple documentation isn't very helpful for mapkit. Macincloud is also not updated to the most recent version of xcode so that is causing issues with the Map() function. Thank you guys! |
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Everything is so far good, been a learning experience, just hope the exam I’ll be able to finish on time. |
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An version of the exercise with swiftui would have been useful |
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Everything was explained pretty well |
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This week's homework was much more diffcult than previous assignments, because MapKit was only covered in UIKit in class. Since most students seem to prefer SwiftUI, I think it would be better to focus on SwiftUI for the in-class programming exercises. Aside from that, lecture and hw were good and topic (MapKit) was practical as usual. |
Week 7 - October 05, 2023
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Just would like to know what to study for on the exam. So I’m prepared for it. Messaged TAs as well.
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session was good
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I was really impressed with a lot of the presentations, I wasn't expecting so many people to be incorporating APIs and databases into their apps, so I hope mine isn't too simple. The professor gave a lot of good feedback about colors, design, and user flow - I wish we had a refresher on these topics closer to the app specification submission, but I'm glad that we have a chance to get some points back by revising our work. Brainstorming with TAs in the Teams chat was fun as well, I always enjoy how interactive this course is. Looking forward to the Beta app presentations!
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A rubric of qualified app specification expectations would be helpful. I was a bit surprised at all the critiques during class despite not having many guidelines. In addition, a better example of what was wanted would be more helpful, especially the userflow diagram. Overall, I feel like I am going to have to make a lot of changes in my app simply because I was unaware of expectations. It was definitely a fun learning experience to see the presentations.
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What is expected of the user flow could have been defined more clearly prior to presentations
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It was great! Got to see a lot of interesting ideas
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Week 6 - September 28, 2023
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As the exercises get more complicated, I think it would be good if there were videos of the functions of the apps rather than just still images, as it is not always 100% clear what is desired. |
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I'd appreciate it if Vitalii could go a little slower in the app development part of the class. |
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The lecture and hw were great - super practical and important (fetching data)! The hw was very close to the example Vitalii covered in class, so it was pretty easy to complete. |
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I appreciated the review of auto layout. I am still struggling with how to make swift UI look good in landscape mode, that is what takes me the most time. |
Week 5 - September 21, 2023
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Tougher then weekly assignments! Seriously?!
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I thought it was fair. Assignment 4 & 2 pretty much covered everything that was on the exam.
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In 3 hours i am not able do all the parts
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The exam was only difficult because of the time it took to finish everything. I unfortunately ran out of time, I got the main points down but I could’ve improved a lot of the functionality and layouts if I had time. Otherwise, it was alright. Thank you as always.
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It was challenging but fair, the time limit was a bit restrictive though - I didn't have much time/energy to attempt the bonuses even as a more experienced developer, so I think less experienced students would struggle for time. Aside from that it was good :)
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it was just a lot of features to implement in a short time slot, especially with the lack of experience we have with the language swift, because this is only the first exam.
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Need more time
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I was only able to complete about half of the exam due to the time limit. I feel like I have been keeping up with the class content well and I am a fairly fast programmer in general, so it was a bit defeating. Can this exam be curved?
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The concept regarding the tic-tac-toe triads were hard to implement without having to hard-code the parameters. The UI portion of the exam was pretty do-able. Personally, I was restricted a little because having turned on my camera on the Teams meeting, my MacBook was pretty much frozen for about 15 to 20 minutes.
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The amount of things to implement seemed daunting. Didnt allow for time to debug any issues which is a typical problem with programing. The time for the exam should start after instructions. This leads to a loss in time on the exam and hinders performance.
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The amount of time to do most of the requirement is not enough. and logic was fairly difficult for the amount of time we had to implement it.
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The exam wasn't difficult by itself, but the auto-layout part of the app development takes a lot of time. I'd appreciate if we could have more discussion on auto-layout in the class.
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A lot more logic than last homeworks and took the most time. The layout of the elements was fine to implement. Really appreciated the font sizes of the buttons and title. Would be better if you gave the color hex codes in the description as well. To be honest, expected something easier than what it was cause we had only 3 hour to do it. Harder than HW for sure which also makes sense since it was an exam - but with only 3 hours to do it makes it even more difficult. Hw definitely helped a lot.
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I feel like I wasn't tested on the content but how fast I could set up an app. I believe this Exam was harder than any of the homework's we had and we had far less time to do it. There are things I knew how to do but didn't do properly such as passing the data from one view to the other because I felt extremely rushed. I also couldn't figure out why the logic for my Win/Loss boolean wasn't working and spent a good chunk of time on that not realizing that wasting that time was a massive mistake. I'd also like to leave a comment about the homework's, I don't believe that having the homework's assigned on Thursday and due on Tuesday makes much sense. Having only two weekdays to work on them and then turning them in at 4pm on a Tuesday in which we don't even have class to go over them seems counterintuitive. I'd greatly appreciate if the homework's could be from Thursday-Thursday or at the very least due on Tuesday at midnight as I constantly feel stressed from the amount of time I have to work on in consideration with other homework's I need to do over the weekend or simply other plans I have. I wouldn't be shocked if other students feel the same way.
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I personally need to play around with autolayout more so I don't get caught up in it and waste time.
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The time is so rush for the exam. If it has more time, it will allow us to make a more complete application.
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The timing of the test made it difficult, also there was a request to send an alert if the number you inputted had letters but we never learned how to do that so it left me scrambling a bit to find a way to do it. Other than that the test was tough but doable. Although I honestly don't see how someone could have done everything and the bonuses as well unless they're a super genius.
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I don't know exactly how the example app was designed but having to use a systemImage for the question mark icon made it difficult because the provided images had a border while the systemImage didn't. This meant having to size each one differently instead of just being able to use an image that was designed the same way as the crosses and circles. Also, the provided font size and family for the title didn't seem to match up with the pictures that were provided.
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The exam was more so tedious then difficult which led to a lot of time being wasted on the smaller things. I think difficulty wise it was slightly too hard. I also with the exam pdf was more descriptive about stuff such as colors and icons used. I REALLY liked the switch to systemImages for some stuff, hope that can be continued. Finally, I just found out through another person in the class that the semester long app specification is due next week on thursday. Was hoping that we could get an extension. A lot of us didn’t even know the due date was coming up. An extension would go a long way here. Thank you!
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Content was fair and straightforward, auto layout can be a struggle and will eat up your time if you do not move on.
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My personal experience was that this exam was rather difficult. On top of that, I managed my time poorly and I wasted effort on aspects of the exam that I knew I could not solve. However, that is all due to the effort I have put into this class which admittedly has not been much. I am sure many of my other classmates did pretty well and it is a reflection of their efforts. I can't really say the exam was too difficult or anything along those lines. I imagine in actuality it was just right.
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I initially expected the exam to be similar in difficulty to our assignments, especially considering the generous three-hour timeframe. However, I found the exam to be quite challenging to complete within this time constraint. I kindly request that you consider adjusting the difficulty level for future exams. Additionally, if possible, it would be greatly appreciated if bonus tasks could be provided to help compensate for the challenging nature of the exam. Thank you for your understanding and consideration.
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Week 4 - September 14, 2023
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absolutely love this course! It's a true 5-star gem that offers an incredible opportunity to learn and develop essential skills. The coursework is not only informative but also incredibly engaging, with assignments that leave room for your creativity and imagination to flourish. |
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There's a lot of menu hopping in UIKit, which made it difficult to follow along. The material itself seems more tedious than challenging. |
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Great lecture and exercise this week! The HW was a little more complicated than previous weeks, but I enjoyed the challenge. The GoT theme was a fun twist! :D |
Week 3 - September 7, 2023
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Please make the quiz auto submit. Some of us tend to wait until last moment to submit and it results in wasted effort when we couldn't have the mental capacity time the clock. |
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Great lecture/HW overall! The switch from SwiftUI (last week) to UIKit (this week) for Vitalii's walkthrough was a bit jarring, since I had to expand upon my SwiftUI-based HW from last week using concepts I learned in UIKit this week. It wasn't too hard to adapt, but I'd prefer if Vitalii's walkthrough had been in SwiftUI again :) |
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Professor's generous refresher on classes and his conceptual explanation of protocols was a great primer for Vitalii's lecture on view controllers. I do not have prior experience protocols or view controllers, but I was able to follow along with some effort. |
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Week 2 - August 31, 2023
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The homework is a straightforward continuation of the in-class exercise, the style is effective. But I wish we were given a real UI mockup (Figma, Sketch, etc.) for the homework, rather than screenshots, so we can inspect the font size, color codes, element size, etc. Being given a Figma design file would also be much more reflective of real-world development environments. Aside from that it was good :D |
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Week 1 - August 24, 2023
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I am excited for what I will learn this semester. |
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The code snippet was being erased a little too fast while I would still digest its use, other than that, great teaching style.. |
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No additional comments, class was straight forward and easy to follow for the first day. |
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Informational but could have discussed more complex concepts, it was a bit slow. It also would have been nice to send out a notice that we need access to MacOS before the first class so we could have followed along from the start. Thanks! |
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I could not make it to class due to medical reasons but noticed there is a recording posted. Thank you. |
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Thank you so much for a great help to start with XCode. I have been primarily using VSCode. But thanks for your help, the transition is easier. |
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WEEKLY GRADES AND STUDENT COMMENTS
Week 14 - December 1, 2022
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This is such an amazing class. It was so much fun, as well. I learnt a lot from Dr. Pavlidis and team. I could see my design improve after every submission. This was my favourite class this semester. I really hope I could take more of Dr. Pavlidis's classes. Vitalii is very helpful and overall the team is very friendly and accomodating. |
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I enjoyed the presentations this week and the ones we had throughout the year! Overall the course was fantastic, I learned so much and felt the professor and TAs presented the course in a clear and concise way. I enjoyed the apps we built from the exams to the homeworks, everything was super fun. I also liked having the freedom of choosing an app idea for the project because it allowed me to do something that I am passionate about. I also really appreciated the feedback and the availability for help that was offered. I'm super glad I took this course, at first I was nervous that I wouldn't succeed but with how great the quality of this course was I shocked myself at how well I did in the end. So, thank you a million times over for this wonderful semester! |
Week 13 - November 17, 2022
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Week 12 - November 10, 2022
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I love this class. I'm sad it's coming to an end. I wish Dr. Pavlidis and team took more courses. |
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Found this class truely interestung and helpful. \nThankyou for your classes. It would have been even better if the app development exams are bit easy. Hoping it for the last one. |
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In the beta app submission, I felt the requirement of the app working in the landscape mode was a bit too much. I feel beta app needs to show the functional part of the app well while the other elements like landscape, all devices, etc can be taken care of in the final app. |
Week 11 - November 03, 2022
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I really appreciate very much that the TAs / Vitali pushed for market-relevant skills to be taught this week. I also appreciate him pioneering the data transfer between UIKit and SwiftUI for the week's assignment. Being taught market-relevant skills is extremely critical to the value of the education we recieve at UH, so I thank the team for increasing our value as job-searchers. |
Week 10 - October 10, 2022
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This was such a knowledgeable session. It was great to know good design and app ideas and understand the bar that peers set. |
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A very good session. The feedback received from the faculty and students are very important in improving and enhancing the application. |
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Moving forward, we should avoid doing app demos the week after exams. It affects app quality. WIth how tough exam 2 was, we also were hoping if you were open to grade replacements? i.e: we can replace our lowest exam with our highest one. same logic applies to any part of our project (i.e: swapping specification grade with demo, if demo was higher). |
Week 9 - October 27, 2022
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The exam got exponentially more difficult as it required to pass data from a view controller to a tab bar controller. Although this method can be done by using "detailed_view_viewControllers!.first", the methods taught in class overrode each other: - the prepare statement does not work as there is no segue between "tab bar" view controllers. - using "viewDidDisappear" makes it so that the back button becomes unusable, as previously mentioned: there is no segue, or specific identifier for the action to do both an "unwind segue" and a regular transition from one tab bar element to another. Covering selectors might have been more resourceful for the class. The theorical difficulty was alright, but these issues made it troublesome to display the data as the screenshots intended. |
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Exam contained features that we had never practiced/mentioned during class lectures and weekly app assignments. The weekly apps do tend to be based off of the lectures, so I assumed that the exam would be similar to what we've covered. For instance, we never covered how to add titles to our table view sections, so, during the exam I had to look up how adding titles works, which definitely took a chunk of my time. Also, we never covered different embeded controllers, like a tab bar controller inside a navigation controller. This made it extremely difficult to transfer data between each controllers since we've never had to do this. If it wasn't for the hints that Vitalii provided, this exam would've been impossible to complete in 3 hours. \nIf you all do not want to change the structure for future exams to be similar to the lecture and weekly app assignments, then I'd suggest to provide a review of what would possibly be on the exam. This would help us prepare for things that might show up on the exam that were never covered during class lectures/weekly app assignments. |
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It was very tough. It's hard to put together concepts from weeks ago as well. Nevertheless, I really liked the app |
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I get that it was meant to be challenging, but it was still pretty difficult. Personally, the most difficult part that I wasn't able to get was applying the background color change to all of the buttons in the ViewController after a user presses one, and having that color change persist when the user is brought away from that page. |
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I was used to transferring data one way from one VC to another, but updating the cell after is where I struggled. Definitely tough. Go easy on us with grading! This was hard, haha. |
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I'm trully enjoying this class, but the exams are a whole different story, not every mac works great with xcode... but I guess it's useless to even argue because nothing will change, and I don't even see the use for these surveys at this point. |
Week 8 - October 13, 2022
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Another successful lecture written in the history books. Really enjoyed today's lecture, it was very well-paced, and the content and exercises were really interesting as well. |
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Week 7 - October 06, 2022
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Week 6 - September 29, 2022
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I think this was my favorite class so far! It was cool get live peer-reviewed feedback on stuff we actually made. Hands on stuff like this makes me love coding (in the future though, we should set timers or increase # of people per project to 3. So that way we can at least get through half the groups) But thanks. This class is fun, and you are very appreciate. |
Week 5 - September 22, 2022
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The exam was not hard at all, but we needed more time, the first 30 minutes were spent explaining how the app works which we appreciated but it would be nice if those 30 minutes were given back by extending the exam till at least 7:30, overall it was a good exam, we just needed more time, maybe 4 hours for that app. |
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I thought the exam was a fair assesment of the topics covered so far. One minor concern for virtual test takers, however, is that MS Teams slows down xCode significantly, so a lot of time was lost waiting for the simulator and build related issues. |
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Personally, I felt the time was not sufficient for landscpae. |
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It was a good exam, I applied a lot of the knowledge I learned in class to do it, but I made the mistake of not uploading my latest version solution. But it was still a good exam. thank you. |
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This was an amazing test! I thoroughly enjoyed doing it. It was so much fun. Thanks Vitallii!! |
Week 4 - September 15, 2022
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Vitalii's lecture wasn't as fast this time. However, sometimes it is extremely difficult to see where the cursor is being pointed at and what is being clicked. Perhaps this has to do with the dark mode appearance in Xcode, or making the cursor larger (or a different color) could help. |
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Great assignment! I'm so excited to get started on it. Makes this class more fun |
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I wish the professor would give more time instead of the due date on Monday since I have a lot of other stuffs to do as well |
Week 3 - September 8, 2022
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So far everything is going well, I'm really enjoying the class, and no complaint besides the due date time for the assignments, I wish they were at 11:59 Pm, but I'm also okay with 7pm. |
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Really clear instructions for the week 3 assignment. Thank you |
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Lecture was very easy to follow and implement for homework exercise. |
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Pros: ALL questions were answered in class, and both profs and TAs were available outside class to answer individual questions. I really appreciate this. It was also cool to see the class troubleshoot the naming issue in class together. Cons: After setting up the view controllers, it felt like Vitalli moved kinda fast with the coding. I wish we slowed down, but thankfully we have the Teams recording. |
Week 2 - September 1, 2022
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I like the teaching style for explaining how simple IOS UI works. |
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I just wish you guys specified better what to study for the quiz, I was reading everything I saw in the links on the syllabus, but overall great class this week as well. |
Week 1 - August 25, 2022
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A little bit too fast on the Swift Crash Course. Otherwise, everything else was good. |
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A lot of concepts were covered at once in a single class. Could've been a bit slow. |
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The presentation and pacing were great. Learning a new language is always exciting. The only issue I had was that the code font was small. |
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Very useful coding snippets. |
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The class model seems very interesting. The only issues would be that it's hard to hear from the corner of the roomand that the slides are very simplified (The slides themselves are good but some of them would be hard to understand for people who never used swift-style code. |
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Although the information may have been too much for someone with relatively little experience with Swift, overall the examples taught in class were a great refresher for what's to come later in the semester. |
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So far I have found the class to be very interesting, and the professor and TAs seem to have a lot of knowledge on the topic, so far I am very satisfied. |
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I liked learning about Swift and iOS dev history, and also getting a realtime demo on xCode I do think the macBook distribution couldve been handled better. We got macbooks in hand way too late. With 20 students in class, shouldve had macbooks available to follow along with BEFORE the demo started. |
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I like that the course has a demo part of coding and I hope to keep it going. In addition to this, I would also like the professor to continue to record lectures. |
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Presentation could have been more dynamic and lively and some of the things when making the application could have been smoother since there was times when we were just waiting around while the professor tried doing things, for example when making the logo. |
It is difficult to understand you sometimes. I also disagree on your opinion as to why we should be locked into apple's bad ecosystem for this class. Android holds 72% of the global market share of mobile OS users, which has been climbing steadily. You can code for android on any OS, easily, but apple locks you into their ecosystem. The macincloud experience was terrible, laggy, and unreliable. I had to buy a mac just for this class. To join the apple ecosystem and download xcode, I had to give them all of my information excluding my SSN. This is an extreme invasion of privacy IMO, just for a class I need to finish this semester if I want to graduate on time. I feel my arm being twisted by UH on this. They should offer one class on android systems and one on ios, but to not teach the development of software on an OS held by 72% of the entire world is crazy to me. You wanted honest feedback, so hopefully you see this as constructive and not just me ranting about my displeasure in the structure of this course. Also the class should be called "Apple App Development" based on what you said we are going to be doing this semester.
The online section wasn't able to actually view the lecture live this past week.
class flowed smoothly and for the online section it was still very understandable
involving the online section to ask questions would be nice.
I wish professor could speak louder so I can listen to him clearly
I am enjoying swift, but groups should at least be a minimum of 3 people.
No comments. Looking forward to learning more about app development in SwiftUI.
I would recommend to take more breaks during class to strengthen our attention spans.
Some of the code files were confusing to access through teams.
As a beginner to Swift, I appreciated how Professor Pavlidis took his time to explain all the components of the demo app during class, regardless of whether the logic was simple or more complex.
It was a wonderful beginning to the class. Much better than expected. I see that the Professor have a genuine care for students and wants us to excel in life. I got to know this when I spoke to him after class where he mentioned that he wants to ensure that we are able to develop a mid level app on our own. It was a wonderful lecture and looking forward to the next one.
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