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Posted by Pratyush Tottempudi
Pratyush Tottempudi
2,035 Points

ios Development with Swift course is too too short and very basic. Does not teach Metal, Cocoa Touch and other stuff.

ios Development with Swift course is too too short and very basic. Does not teach Metal, Cocoa Touch and other stuff. I feel like I did not learn anything complex. With the knowledge we gained through Treehouse, cannot even develop a moderate game. I does not teach on how to learn and use Cocoa Touch with Metal, and how to develop games with medioce graphics. And its just 12 hours.

1 Answer

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

well, the Swift Basics course is just that. Its a basic course. It is not aimed at game development with Metal or game development at all.

The other swift courses are aimed at beginners as well, with the exception of the weather app course, and generally focus on getting familiar with Swift and iOS in general. Game development would be out of the scope of these courses

there is a Sprite Kit course using objective c that will teach you how to develop a game using Sprite kit that you might be interested in.

But as far as Swift courses go, none that have been released so far cover game development in any form or fashion

Pratyush Tottempudi
Pratyush Tottempudi
2,035 Points

Hi Stone,

Thanks for taking your time and responding.

The problem with other courses is they are in Objective C. I am a new iOS developer, and I thought we can develop apps by just learning Swift.

So In order to learn advanced programming like Cocoa Touch, and Metal, do we still need to learn objective C?

My aim is too release some good apps into the market. Is just Swift enough, or should we also learn Objective C.

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

So In order to learn advanced programming like Cocoa Touch, and Metal, do we still need to learn objective C

no, you can use swift.

However, I would say learning objective-c in addition to swift is a good idea. A lot of 3rd party libraries etc still use objective c, and its nice to be able to see objective c and be able to translate it into swift.

Its important to know both.