Josh's Swift Journey

It's Christmas Eve and time to code! To think, a year ago, I was plodding along with some eBook, blindly convincing myself that I was on a steady road to coding greatness. Really, it was from June where I made the decision to start again, humbling as that may seem. It would have been comforting to have completed endless 'beginner' courses but branching out and applying the theory is the key thing, which brings us to this entry. Yes, my second Xcode OWN project! I thought about doing an educational one, as there is certainly a lot of scope and relevance for that, being a teacher and all. However, making a quiz makes sense, for various reasons.  First off, I have made this before through Angela's excellent tutorial. No offence to Sandra, but hers is not even close to the elegance and effectiveness of Angela's project. The one thing to take from Sandra is the stack views. Definitely something I will use from now on. This is one of the great things about learning from...

Two days in a row - first time in a while. Boom! Yesterday was a really useful session, focusing on classes then applying it to a model. It made a few concepts clearer to me, especially the fact that custom types can be passed into parameters/arguments; THEN the object, when created, can be put into the function. Anyway, I said I'd start a new project next. Before I do that, I want to crack on with Sandra's Quiz Project - the next chapter in her course. THAT will be the project I will work on! Start Time - 13:13 Intro and Stack View Right so I have opened the project file then Sandra says that we can go from scratch. So I will actually do the same as that's the best way to learn! Reminder about the new position of the option button. Stack view needed! Vertical stack view put in. Constraints time. *Red - missing constraints *Yellow - conflicting constraints *Blue - all is OK! This is just to show that the label and button are like the 'children' of ...

Well 3 days is better than the gap between the previous entries! My plan is to work through OOP today, then start working on my next independent app project. Let's go! Start Time - 10:50 Object Oriented Programming My take - this is about the creation of 'object's which are an instance of a particular class or type. There is functionality involved in this too. Let's see the actual definition! So data vs action is a key part. Procedural oriented programming - design program with a set of instructions. I get this as procedural text types/instructions is something I've taught. Data types - strings, ints etc. but also custom ones from classes/structs Coffee machine example - A good analogy for the fact that the machine has different functions and specifications (properties). The above are the functions. Engineers build the actual machine - it has specifications. It then has the propensity for different jobs/functions. An object is a coffee m...