Learn Apple Watch Programming Quickly by Examples

Learn Apple Watch Programming Quickly by Examples - My January Challenge

Apple Watch is soon to release, and being a huge Apple Evangelist, I've been very eager to explore the possibilities of what one can make with these 'Most personal device ever made by Apple'. My hopes are high. I'm in a constant mission to excavate this area at the earliest. And guess what, me and my friends have been working on a couple of interesting 'Apple Watch' things lately:

1. Creating a course - 'Learn Apple Watch Programming Quickly By Examples'
2. Creating a website for Apple WatchKit Tutorials

Both are in beta and will be public soon. I'm trying to get the latest releases of the WatchKit sdk (which is bundled in Xcode 6.2 beta and higher and is required to build Watch Apps) and trying to publish tutorials on new APIs as and when they come.

Following are my objectives with both these online ventures

Teach things more by examples and less by theory
Convey ideas at the simplest form possible
Keep user-interaction at the heart of all materials
Make the examples in a way encouraging the user to replicate the same
Provide quick support in the discussion forum of the course

Let me know the feedback/ideas , and yes watch out this space for more details coming soon.

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