Introduction
Over the next few classes, you will build a to-do list app, and by doing so, learn how to use a cloud-hosted database to persist data (keep data permanently) within an app.
Let’s get started!
Build the static interface
Once you are satisfied with a paper prototype for an app, a great first step when beginning to author code is to create a static interface.
That means you create a user interface that looks like a functioning app, but holds information that cannot change.
The app appears to be complete but is not yet interactive.
Once you have built a static interface, you can then add logic to make the app come to life.
So, the first step in creating your to-do list app will be to create the static interface.
Using what you remember from the first two threads of this course, work alone or side-by-side with a partner to reproduce this user interface:
As a hint, here is part of the code needed to get started:
And remember… D.R.Y.! Where can you apply abstraction in this user interface?
TIP
Carry on and read part 2 of this tutorial.