Track 12: Hey, Siri, Make Me an App

About this Episode

Bugs, crashes, simulators, scrums, sprints, and -- quite literally -- grumpy old gits. It's all in a day's work as we explore what it takes to make an app, how we got here, and why we care so much about apps anyway. Also: why two burgers are better than one. Recorded Thursday, November 15, 2018.

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• Follow-up: Homework check
  • Anson's rap battle assignment (done and done)
  • Anson's Critical Role assignment
• News Tidbit of the Week
  • Kurt: The passing of Stan Lee
• Mini-Topic: Christmas decor
  • Real versus artificial trees
  • How soon is too soon?
• Main topic: Computer Science
  • A brief history of apps
  • Why do we care about apps?
  • A day in the life of a software developer
  • How do apps get made?

Episode Links

• iPhone (1st generation) - Wikipedia
• iOS - Wikipedia — Apple's operating system that runs on iPhone and iPad
• App Store (iOS) - Wikipedia
• Pull-To-Refresh Inventor Says There's No Need To Worry About Twitter's Patent Application | Cult of Mac — Article from 2012, citing a third-party Twitter app developer as the inventor of pull-to-refresh
• Think different - Wikipedia — Apple's marketing slogan, 1997-2002
• App Store Review - Apple — The process every iOS app must pass before being available in the App Store.
• Agile software development - Wikipedia
• Xcode - Apple Developer — Apple's software for making iOS (and Mac) apps
• BBEdit 12 - Bare Bones Software — Anson's preferred high-powered text editor
• Git — The dominant version control system in use by software developers, and one of Anson's favorite things to read about
• Unix - Wikipedia — Contains a chart showing how macOS is a member of the UNIX family of operating systems
• fish shell — Anson's preferred shell
• GitUp — Excellent tool for visualizing the history in a Git repository
• Sublime Merge - Git Client, done Sublime — Anson's current favorite Git GUI
• ansonj on GitHub — Anson's open-source projects on GitHub
• App Store Connect - Apple Developer — Used to upload apps to the App Store
• Swift - Apple Developer — Apple's promo page about the programming language Swift
• Swift.org - Welcome to Swift.org — The homepage for the open-source development of the Swift programming language
• Unit testing - Wikipedia
• Test-driven development - Wikipedia
• Cocoa Touch - Wikipedia — Apple's set of frameworks for iOS development
• Stack Overflow — A programmer's frequent companion and reference
• Stack Exchange — A hub of Q&A forums, of which Stack Overflow is a member
• dnd 5e - Can I defeat Strahd von Zarovich by stuffing him in a bag of holding and tearing it? - Role-playing Games Stack Exchange
• Codecademy - Ruby — Kurt's homework assignment