Josh's Swift Journey

Here we are now! Haven't been able to code for a few days. A quick entry here - around 20 minutes, then some proper time tomorrow! Rather than play around with the SwiftUI view stuff, I feel like cracking on with another Ray course. There's plenty of content on RW.com so I want to get stuck in! *Entry ends up going over two days! Start Time - 12:01 I struggled with this 'To-do' app before. I want to have another crack with it as it looks updated with UI even though the overall rating (3.4 out of 5) isn't great. The dude's name is Jessy Catterwaul. He looks a little like the Joker! There will be challenges etc. along the way. Models A point about copyright statements - something to bear in mind if/when working for a specific company. A bit about copying a p-list into the main folder. Done. Models - created a Swift file. This is where the data model will go. Another Swift file created with a class. OK challenge time - nearly there for now! cl...

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...

Here we go! Moving on from Error Handling (what a waste of time that was!), I'm now embarking on my second 'app project' - this time a vending machine! Although I don't need this specifically, I'm sure that the skills involved will be useful. I learned so much from the 'Fun Facts' course. So, here we go! Modelling an Interface OK the idea for this looks really interesting - choosing items to purchase and seeing if enough money is there. Handling the errors where necessary - that is the point for this particular course. Also, this app will be using multiple screens - not just the same one! Also, we're moving on from just buttons to using 'variable information'. Good stuff! Starter File Walkthrough A UI CollectionView is used - this is for an ordered collection of items in a customisable layout. WARNING - concepts I am not familiar with will be in this! OK one issue - the main storyboard I have has one big button rather than lots of litt...