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Eduardo Scodino
5,083 PointsImpossible to track this course. Completely outdated.
This course (as others related to Objective-C) is very outdated. Each step is followed by an error or something that you have to do in a different way. Even the .zip project available for download doesn't work properly.
These courses should be updated.
Nic Desjardins
2,093 PointsI agree, part of providing training material for things that constantly evolve is looking back at it once in a while to see whether things have changed such that your learners can no longer follow along.
When lessons are new or up to date, they are fun and easy to get through. However, when they aren't kept up to date with the tools of today, it's hard to follow along and you end up having to do research for workarounds in the time you had put aside for learning, that's not good. Also, you will likely find a higher drop-out rate for these courses versus the course you keep up to date.
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Jack Campbell
1,822 Points100% agree! Just finished the lesson on putting in the tab bar controllers and it won't work.
Madhav Sharma
4,081 PointsI agree with Darean Wong, if you want to be a good iOS developer you need to have the skill to adapt to updates to the relevant frameworks and Xcode.
I know it's a bit frustrating at first and you feel like it's a waste of time, but you are practicing a valuable skill. Just push through! Good luck.
Madhav Sharma
4,081 PointsAlthough, i'm sure OP actually did that, but my message was directed to people who view this question.
Darean Wong
Courses Plus Student 4,186 PointsDarean Wong
Courses Plus Student 4,186 PointsWhat I did instead was to try to figure out how to do things the "new" way and I believe we can learn more doing it this way too since we'll be accustomed to doing things ourselves instead of blindly following steps laid out for us.
That said, I do agree that a lot of the courses are outdated with respect to iOS 8 and especially Xcode 6.