Josh's Swift Journey

So only around 20 minutes maximum today - just a brief entry. I didn't code yesterday as the time I'd spent on the F1 sim the day before had hurt my eyes and head too much! I'm heading back to Dubai today where I have my screen, so that will make it more doable! Anyway, time to start a new project! Let's go.  Start Time - 08:41 Intro I love the idea of these. As mentioned in the last blog, Angela had a fantastic one in her course before. The only issue with that was how 'messy' the code was for when the story would keep growing. This will involve building reusable views, navigating to a new view, and going back to the beginning when done. Taking in text, delegates, complex models...will hopefully be useful! Navigation Controllers  Modal views.... But we are using stack views. We have a view on top of another and so on. Navigation controller is provided by Xcode. Two jobs - 1. Present custom views from the view controller 2. Present its own custo...

Yes, so I have found some sort of rhythm, hence another entry today! Just continue from where we got to.... *Ended up continuing from 4th April instead! Start Time - 17:09 Swift Closures (advanced Swift!) My understanding of these is that they are like functions without a specific name. So they can be shorter/easier etc. I tried conceptualising them before with Bob's course but it was at that point that I gave up on them! Function - bread analogy. An input with a machine that cuts up the bread, then an output (sliced bread!). Three variations on functions - 1.Those that do something without any input/parameters or have an output 2. Those that take an input with no specific output 3. Those that take an input and give an output So closures are a step beyond that! Simple function - with input, output and something that happens. Then an adding one, which we're going to use into the original function... Here's how it now looks -   Ahh so I can pa...