Josh's Swift Journey

All signed up! It's actually through LinkedIn - a site I've never needed to use before. But all of the content of Lynda is on there; I have it free for a month, then decide if I want to continue it! If I do, it is either £15 a month for an annual subscription, or £25 for the monthly. I'm thinking annual, as there is new content all the time added from Lynda! So, exiting stuff! I'm naturally going to start with the 'Swift 5 Essential' course. Where else! So the perfect time to consolidate what I know (again!!) but with the Swift 5 updates all in mind. I need to go through this, as well as any other 'beginner' level courses. Let's go for it! Start Time - 13:28 Introduction OK, this is not a programming fundamental course. Good! I am not brand new to programming and don't need to go further back than this. So it is not for complete novices basically. Good, all on playgrounds first, which is what I need! 1. Getting Started Swift is Compil...

Following on from my 'Brief History' post, this other retrospective is to help me make sense of what I know about Swift so far and to summarise the journey I've been on with it. Subsequent posts in this blog will involve up-to-date thoughts and reflections on my current learning of Swift. Here is how I went about learning Swift: In April 2015, I started off learning Swift with several Udemy courses, including one by Rob Percival, which was very popular and highly-rated. At first, I had the naive assumption that it would all be very straightforward and easy to pick up. It wasn't! Rob's course was great if you were confident with the language, but the halfway point I was lost. The tasks seemed to be impossible to figure out without some insider knowledge. Anyway, I supplemented that course with several others on Udemy, which helped me to learn what the basics were. From there, I found a useful site: 'WeHeartSwift', which were useful in carrying out cha...