Initial Commit
added gitignore file from my template
fixed comments
Created new class ItemsViewController, which inherits from UITableViewController
we have an empty UITableView
Ch. 9: Added BNRItem class from Big Nerd Ranch's official solutions (I skipped Ch. 3, I guess)
Created BNRItemStore as data source for our UITableView
(minor) sorted Xcode view alphabetically
ItemsViewController adds 5 test items
our view controller now conforms to the UITableViewDataSource protocol
Performance fix:
now uses reusable cells
Finished Ch. 9, Bronze Challenge (yay!!), using a much more elegant solution than I did in the midterm (i.e. using predicates)
added link to page where I learned syntax for [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:...]
refactored to avoid awkward syntax [self filterItemsForSection...] by declaring my helper method as a class method
Completed Ch. 10, Silver Challenge "Constant Rows" [took 17mins]
(minor) fixed typo
Ch. 9, GOLD Challenge
- refactored solution from silver challenge into helper method; verified silver challenge still works
Ch. 9, GOLD Challenge
- each row's height is 60 points, except the last row from the silver challenge, which remains 44 points
Ch. 9, Gold Challenge.
- Added wallpaper.jpg image as backgroundView for our UITableView
  - three variants: non-retina, retina 3.5" devices, and iPhone 5+ retina 4" devices
Completed Ch. 9, GOLD challenge in 1hr 15mins
- custom formatting for (a) each row's height (already committed that change), (b) font size, and (c) background image