Josh's Swift Journey

Two entries in a day?! Yes! Well the previous one was more of a 'what I did before' so not that much of an achievement, really. Anyway, I am going back to Angela's course after a brief detour for my own project. I've already got an idea for another project, a much more tricky one - Guess Who! With that, I would have a number of different pictures i.e. 16. The computer would randomly choose one, then the player would select questions to eliminate the pictures that do not match to it. Until there is just one left - number of questions it took gives them a score. Anyway, leaving that for now and doing some more learning! Let's go! Start Time - 15:52 Flash Chat App This has got about storing data - cloud-based. That could be really interesting. Also table view controller...again something else that I want to know more about. Firebase, cocoa pods....so some technical stuff again! Firebase A service from google. It has cloud based infrastructure to sav...

So this time we're by the pool by RAK! Probably better in terms of wind, sand etc... I've arranged for someone to collect my laptop to replace the screen. Have also ordered a new case and an ant-glare screen cover. All of these things should help and it's worth the money. Well it's a lot of it! 1575 to repair; 200 for anti-glare screen; 50 for cover. Anyway.... Today I'm going to start the Bitcoin tracker challenge. Going to spend an hour on it - maybe more. Let's go! Start Time - 10:27 OK, step 1 is to download the project.. STEP 1 Right, I am not going to type much here as it is pretty much following instructions. Will add anything that's a useful learning point! OK, after putting in the currencyPicker.delegate = self (and the same for the dataSource one), errors come up because we HAVE NOT CONFORMED TO THAT PROTOCOL! That makes sense - we've put in those protocols in the view controller. So those methods need implementing. Ok. Using the...

Here we are - another sizeable gap between entries! It's been longer than I hoped for but just difficult to find the time.  I hope that this changes, as since June I've been pretty consistent at maintaining my coding time. Anyway, I'm NEARLY at the point of where I was with Angela's Xcode 11 course. Definitely a good shout to recap and go over stuff with this one, especially as Swift has updated and I need refreshers anyway. OK here we go! Start Time - 12:19  Clima App So the Application Programme Interfaces (APIs) access online information - saving a LOT of coding time, plus with real-time updated information. Ok so one thing was putting everything to the desktop - that's where the reference to various files will be. So OK fair enough! Multiple view controllers - I've done this before so no biggy. Navigating between them - that will be useful for the next app! Segue - moving between view controllers. So Angela has set up all of the icons, views, con...

I'm back! Having tried out Ray Wenderlich's course (started off well but tailed considerably, especially after the other instructor came in), Pasan's Intermediate one on Treehouse (some interesting theory but not enough challenges to make the content applicable) and Chris Ching's beginner's course (a great consolidation with tough challenges at the end), I've concluded that Angela's course is the best. So I'm going back to hers! With her course, I created apps of increasingly complexity and interest, with great explanations and I thoroughly enjoyed all of it. Last time it was about constraint views, which wasn't the most exciting; at that point (back in July or whenever it was), I figured it was time to try out other purchased courses. However, I can see now that hers was the best - in all ways. So thank you Angela for this course as hopefully it's just what I need right now! Clima App Right, this is the app I'm going to be making! I'...