Mac Development for Media Arts

Catalog description

Explores native application development for OS X (Macintosh) for use in the domain of media arts. Project-based course covers the native Xcode development environment and the C and Objective-C programming languages. Native applications are able to achieve the highest levels of performance; they leverage the unique technologies built for a platform and they are able to participate in the native user experience (look and feel) that all users of a popular platform expect. To understand native apps for OS X, the course examines a number of code frameworks provided for developers by Apple (the core of which are often called Cocoa), including Foundation, AppKit, AV Foundation, Core Animation and SpriteKit.