Leading up to and just before we started the iPhone applications I wasn't sure whether or not I was going to enjoy it. In my mind it had the potential to be interesting and possibly fun but depended largely on whether or not I was good at it.
We started off just doing some exercises mainly just following instructions and also printed chapters from a book. I actually found all of that quite interesting and was liking it a lot more than the two weeks of processing. After the first couple of days I was finding that I also seemed to be better at the iPhone programming than the processing. I think one reason may be that xcode is more visual than processing and with interface builder I can see how that code needs to be linked to the buttons etc.
Our first project/exercise out of two was to add some extra features to a stopwatch. The next and more complicated project was to design and create our own applications. This had the the option of working either in pairs or individually. Jess and I decided to work together and the idea that we came up with was to make a movie quiz.
For the first week of the holidays we both worked individually on the project and then met up at the beginning of the second week. Throughout the rest of the holidays we were able to work well together by combining the work that we had each done and together coming up with what we wanted to do. We each did specific parts of the code and then again combined them, as well as adding other parts as we thought of them.
I was pleased with our final app and quite unexpectedly enjoyed the project.
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