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Paul Hegarty's updated CS193p SwiftUI course released by Stanford
- 4pkjai 11mo agoI did the 2014 version of this to learn Swift to port an Android app I made. He’s an excellent teacher! I think he worked at Apple so he shared a lot of the history behind the APIs in iOS going back to the NextStep days.
- jruz 11mo agoWow man been waiting for this to be updated for ages!
- mikeyk 11mo agoI took CS193P when it was first offered in 2007; one of my favorite classes at Stanford because it was so hands-on. At the time few people had iPhones, so everyone in the class got a free iPod Touch for development. My final project was a photo sharing app with a Polaroid shake to reveal mechanic… lightly influenced Instagram which Kevin and I built a few years later!
- websap 11mo agoYou built a solid app!
- big_toast 11mo agoIf you were a student in 2025, is CS193P (looks swiftUI rendering heavy) still the hands-on foundation for the next-big-tinkerer or would it look more like building around affordances of AI? (or something else).
- iberator 11mo agoWow. Thank you for your service
- brazukadev 11mo agoYeah. Instagram was lovely. It might be disheartening to see what it became, what it does to people's minds for a profit, the costs for society as a whole.
- boulos 11mo agoI can't seem to find the 2007 webpage (maybe it was one of the wiki-based ones?) but the 2008 syllabus looked very hands on: https://web.archive.org/web/20081208171743/http://stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/index.php https://web.archive.org/web/20081208171743/http://stanford.e... I never took 193p, but I always found 148 to be hands on, and I made it very hands on for the year I contributed: https://web.archive.org/web/20130522184434/https://graphics.stanford.edu/wikis/cs148-09 https://web.archive.org/web/20130522184434/https://graphics.... . I regret that we put my subdivision assignment as the last one, and we allowed students to skip one assignment. Most students skipped it, but those that did the work thought it was super cool to have their own subdivision tool for making smooth meshes.
- bbrmaley 11mo agohow did course exist in 2007 ? App Store and sdk was released in 2008
- explodes 11mo agoGod I love Hacker News.
- tritip 11mo agoThis is a lovely surprise. Fantastic resource.
- neilv 11mo ago[flagged]
- almostgotcaught 11mo agoPeople have such strong delusions about universities (and they're so vocal about them too).
- neilv 11mo agoNot delusions. Ideals. And reactions to erosion.
- almostgotcaught 11mo agoYou can't have ideals about other people's things - you want to be idealistic (ideological?), feel free to start your own uni.
- neilv 11mo agoAcademia and higher education have long-established ideals, institutions receive considerations from society in light of that, and they are also supposed to be regulated in some ways (e.g., accreditation). I think a better defense than the libertarian "don't tell me what to do with my property" would've taken the angle that "university X isn't actually becoming a factory for pumping out techbro libertarian scourges of society".
- wahnfrieden 11mo agoYes you can
- Austin_Conlon 11mo agoI think it’s only the 193 series of classes that are industry-related electives. Swift is open source too.
- greentea23 11mo ago
- mobiledev2014 11mo agoThis course was integral in kicking off my career over a decade ago. I think there's no better way to learn to build an iOS app, and the fact that it's free is a true gift. Pre-reqs are in the first lecture: -Experience writing code (100% of the work in this course involves programming) -At least CS106A (Programming Methodology) + CS106B or X (Programming Abstractions) and CS107 (Computer Organization & Systems); CS108 (Object Oriented Programming), CS43 (Functional Programming Abstractions), CS11O (Principles of Computer Systems), CS147 (Introduction to Human Computer Interaction Design) are awesome! -Know some "structured" programming paradigm, e.g. OOP or Functional Programming -Preferably you know more than one language (cause you're gonna learn a new one here!)
- rubansk 11mo agoI love cs193p! Paul Hegarty is an incredible teacher. I did the course twice [1], first in 2020 as a programming noob who just threw everything into one file. His teaching of MVVM was my first introduction to proper software architecture. Then I went through it again last year as a refresher before building my first app and even on the second run, his lectures were fun to listen to. [1] https://github.com/sk-ruban/CS193p https://github.com/sk-ruban/CS193p
- canyp 11mo agoI am surprised that a university with the renown of Stanford would have a course specifically on "the fundamentals of how to build applications for iPhone and iPad using SwiftUI." Not even mobile UI/UX, or UI/UX principles in general; straight up yolo iOS. How do people not find this absolutely egregious? At my uni, we organized protests for much smaller intrusions of corporate interests into education. Is Stanford not much better than a bootcamp these days?
- windows_hater_7 11mo ago> Is Stanford not much better than a bootcamp these days? Rage-bait? Universities are criticized for not providing enough economic value and real job training, yet when they do, they are labeled corporate shills.
- canyp 11mo agoNo? It was a legitimate question because there have been similar trends in other unis around the world, and I am not personally acquainted with Stanford things. I always held Stanford in high regard.
- axus 11mo agoThere was no Android, app store was new, there were no app bootcamps. In 2025 if you wanted to offer a hands-on quantum computing class for Computer Science (not Physics), you'd need to pick a corporate product.
- generalpf 11mo agoThis is the course I used online to learn Objective-C and UIKit to make iOS applications, and now I am a Staff iOS Engineer. Nice to see him still doing this.
- pocketlim 11mo agoThis was my first learning experience with iOS around late 2012. Watched all the lovely videos and did the homeworks just to learn, and eventually went on to write lots of probably horrible working code for early Tinder. At least we had a QA team that rocked back then. Thanks Paul! Could not have asked for a better intro to working with Objective-C at the time. The fact that this is free and everyone can learn with it is awesome!
- rudedogg 11mo agoI'm thankful these are given away for free, but a little sad all the videos are only in 720p
- ChrisMarshallNY 11mo agoVery cool! Thanks for sharing this. Not sure if I'll do it, myself, because I think I may have already gotten past it, but that's been a long, painful slog. Wish I had this resource a few years ago.
- hamish-b 11mo agoExcellent course (I did mine ~2019), super grateful to Paul and Stanford for continuously releasing it publicly and updating them all these years later.
- zerr 11mo agoWhy did they cancel the Android alternative of this course?
- evereverever 11mo agoWhat a fantastic resource this has been over the years. Hegarty is a real old NeXT guy too!