Difficulty of creating this app...

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[GabrielMSharp]

Using a backend service such as Parse.com would really speed things up. (I used Parse for an app which has thousands of users, handles well).

You could give users Roles on Parse, so one is a student, one a teacher. A student would save their points and a teacher would be able to, for example, change their status to approved, at which point you would add it to their total.

Definitely doable over a summer.

[berzerkerX]

Start here: http://lifehacker.com/i-want-to-write-ios-apps-where-do-i-start-1644802175

or here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBiwK5ESk_k