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iphone 2012
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Today, the workshop students started off class by learning about the different tools they would use for the day, which included Xcode, simulator, and another tool using Xcode called Interface Builder. Xcode and Interface Builder were the applications they used to actually program and make the design for the app. Simulator was used to test the app, look for bugs while the app runs, and also how it will appear when using the app on a real iphone. After reviewing the different programs, Ron introduced the students to their new app project of making a word scrambler game. The game involved a scrambled word (words were provided from looking at all 6 letter words from the book "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville) being displayed on the screen, and the user had to guess what the word was before the timer went off. The students then began to use Interface Builder in order to design how their app would look.

After break, the students began to code the app to do different things, including which buttons the user would be able to use, which buttons the letters would display on, and the start and stop button. In order to make the buttons interactive with the user, the workshop students had to click and drag the action they needed to the corresponding button. This took up the rest of class, and concluded their day with this app.