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To learn how to create an iPhone application we needed an application to build, we needed an idea.

We considered a few ideas but decided that the best option was one that could be used to teach people how to safely unload a shipping container. There are many pitfalls working with containers, some that we felt were obvious ie. manual handling, but there were other not so obvious scenarios such as a container carrying a chemical stored in an unsatisfactory way may have broken packaging and the resulting gas is extremely toxic. The most common problem that people unpacking containers face is cargo that has shifted during transportation, perhaps really heavy container contents are leaning on the door. When the doors are unlocked they fly open knocking the person over leaving the contents of the container to fall on top of the person.

 So it is important to know as much about the contents of the container before it is opened, and to understand how to assess the container with all the information that is at hand.

 This application will help train students to do this initial assessment and the subsequent unpack of the container contents safely.

 The application should be:


 * easy to use - intuitive
 * use sound and visual cues instead of text where possible
 * give appropriate feedback and information that will help the student and not leave them guessing.
 * used to show others how to create an iPhone application in the easiest way possible.

 With this in mind we planned the application to meet these requirements which gave us an excellent starting point as we were able to identify programming techniques that we did or didn't need from fairly early on.

 Our next step from here was to register as an iPhone Application Developer so we could download the iPhone Software Development Kist (SDK) and other important information from the Apple Developer site.

Become an iPhone Developer.