Hour 8. Creating Interactive Applications

What you’ll learn in this hour:

The Basics of Connections and Outlets

• How to React to User Input

How to Manipulate Controls with Code

Even the most beautiful user interface won’t do your users much good if they can’t interact with it. Users need to be able to type text into forms, press buttons, drag sliders, and generally prod everything that looks like it can be manipulated with a mouse, trackpad, or touch gesture.

In this hour, you’ll learn the basic building blocks that make interactive applications possible. Interaction is made possible by user actions triggering code and in turn by code manipulating the user interface. We’ll go through both of those scenarios in this hour.

Introducing Connections, ...

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