iOS Application for Taking Open Courses on the Stepik.org Platform

Student: Karpov Aleksandr

Educational Programme: Software Engineering (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 10

Year of Graduation: 2017

Knowledge is one of the most valuable resources nowadays. This project provides the opportunity to study online anytime and anywhere. The iOS application for Massive Open Online Courses platform called Stepik lets people watch video lessons, solve quizzes and discuss them. The application is built using the Swift language and the MVP architecture pattern with the help of multiple frameworks, such as CoreData for storing persistent data and Alamofire for communicating with the API. Besides the main features and functions of the application, this paper contains solutions to various problems that appeared during development. As a result, we have built an app, that is widely used by thousands of users.

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