[Intro to iOS] Week 1: Rotten Tomatoes

[racheltho]

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[codepathreview]

:+1: nice work. The point of this homework was to explore a simple example of a full MVC application with a RESTful API. For each point in the homework feedback checklist, I'll either confirm that you're on the right track with the implementation, or I'll provide some feedback:

• Be sure to follow the Swift code styling conventions for the homework. Here are a few useful guides:
  • Ray Wenderlich Swift Style Guide
  • Github Swift Style Guide
• You should always try to minimize the number of properties and methods that are public or internal (access is internal by default). Make the access private if the property or function doesn't need to be accessed outside the class.
• In future homework, we will cover how to implement models that can deserialize from an NSDictionary. SwiftyJSON is a useful project for making it easier to deserialize the JSON response.
• Your custom Movie cell should have a property called movie. In the custom setter of movie, you should configure the various labels and images. This decouples your custom cells from the table view controllers.
• Nice work loading the images asynchronously.
• Note that your images are stretched. You should observe the UIContentMode of the UIImageView. By default, it will stretch the image to match your dimensions, which is probably not what you want.
• Nice work implementing the error message on network failure.

In general, you should challenge yourself to create visually polished applications. That's where you'll find all the rough edges of the iOS framework and earn the next level of mastery.