iPad, iPhone and Android Online App Design: Groupon For Course on Building, Development and Marketing for £45 (85% Off)

Broadway dancers are great at racking up high scores on mobiles games as they have an uncanny knack for tapping. Drum up some new skills with today’s Groupon: £45 for a mobile phone app development online course from Excel with Business.



Catapulting aspiring designers like furious fowls into the world of apps, this innovative course allows twitchy fingers to get tapping out their own with a simple syllabus for beginners. The program was put together by award-winning app-writing mastermind, Chris Stevens, who also boasts best-seller status after penning two books with tips on how to soar through the app universe. The colourful and engaging syllabus covers 18 units which break down the process bit by bit, from forming an idea, understanding code and touch screen functions, to marketing the finished product. Students can then measure their progress in a 30 minute test, ending with answers and results, a nifty certificate, and a self-bump of congratulations.

The Specifics

• Course written by best-selling app author, Chris Stevens
• Course syllabus in PDF format; simple and colourful layout featuring interactive exercises and videos
• Targeted at those wanting to make an app for themselves or their company
• Covers both Android and Apple platforms
• Practically designed, assuming no prior technical knowledge
• Course designed to be completed in 12 to 16 hours
• Accessible at any time and no time limit
• PDF course content is downloadable for offline use
• 30 minute test with 40 multiple choice questions
• Certificates on completion of course and test

Syllabus Topics

• Introduction to apps
• Basic platform considerations
• The ‘killer app’ idea
• Dealing with clients
• Finding a programmer
• Working for yourself
• How to handle Apple and Google
• Planning your designs
• Partnering with a programmer
• Introducing Apple's Xcode and the Android SDK
• Top tips for touch-screen design
• The ‘feature fallacy’ and how to avoid it
• Prototyping
• Building an app
• Integrating sound
• Understanding games
• Submitting and marketing your app
• Pricing your app

 

About course writer, Chris Stevens

• Has designed multiple number one apps
• Has shipped over 500,000 mobile apps to date
• Author of best-selling app-design books, ‘Designing for the iPad’ and ‘Appillionaires’
• Featured in Apple's global TV ad campaigns for the iPad
• Has won two Kirkus awards for his apps
• Has won a Guardian Media Award for his work as a journalist
• Designer of ‘Alice’ for the iPad

More About Excel with Business

Positively oozing with technological know-how, Excel with Business delivers this wisdom in digestible form to eager minds and businesses around the UK and across the globe. Though the company was formed just a few short years ago, it has since received a firm handshake from prestigious partners such as AAT and ICAEW.

How It Works

1. Buy your Groupon using the 'Buy it Now' button
2. After the deal ends we email you the Groupon, containing 'Groupon code'
3. Your Groupon activates at 8pm the next working day
4. Go to apps.excelwithbusiness.com
5. Enter Groupon Code and click 'sign-up'

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