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...

After completing (yes ALL of!) Nick's Swift 5 course, I'm going to undertake another one on Udemy. I'm content to focus on these refreshers/building in some new info course. The reason why I want to do this one is because there are built in quizzes. I want to make sure I understand what I'm doing! Start Time - 19:54 Intro So the first part is the basics of Swift (I will skim over), then it will go into actual projects. Cool! Language Intro More intro and info! Stephen makes the point of skimming through the language part of the course if I am at an intermediate level. I really want to go through the info and ensure I have a secure understanding, before the projects! Constants and Variables Real basics here. Yes all straightforward. Skimming through to get to the quiz! 10 out of 10 on first quiz! Now onto part 2... Multiple statements on a single line - use semi-colons to separate. To be honest I don't think I will ever do this! Double - precisi...

The roll continues! Last time, it was a focus on consolidating the challenge from Nick (which had MANY tricky elements!) and then finding out what's new with Swift 5. All of that was positive and I feel like I gleaned various useful bits from it.  This time it will be a focus on  Swift Package Manager;  I'm not sure what this is - I assume that it's to do with building own custom code or possibly modules... Anyway, we will see! Start Time - 14:23 Making Your Own Package So terminal is needed. Right so the first bit was OK but it did not like 'exit'! Strange... OK back out and into it and I've created the directory using Terminal. Cool! OK so a lot of what to run from terminal, how to link to Xcode... All of that worked but I don't see the point of it yet, to be honest. From what I've gathered, it's about the use of having Terminal directly interacting with the Xcode file - having the results come up on terminal and working betwe...

Well, this has been the worst effort for a long, long time! An entire month! There's no point fretting about it - that will not achieve anything. I've felt a renewed sense of wanting to achieve with coding. At this point, it makes sense to switch to a new Swift 5 course, as the language has been updated. It will also give me a chance to consolidate and ensure my understanding of the basics is solid. Then I will resume with Angela's course! So not a cop out. OK, let's get stuck in! Start Time - 14:00 Just looking at Nick's course, there are 6 hours of content here. Perfect for the next few entries - possibly just even the next couple of days' worth. A lot will be the basics, but that's fine. Intro/Installing Xcode - skipping through all these! Don't need the Linux/Windows ones either. Swift Basics This is going from absolute beginner, so rather than totally skipping through and onto Intermediate, I'm going to just do a general skim over. S...

And here we are - ANOTHER new course! I know it's getting repetitive now - me getting to around a third of a way through each course before hankering for a new one. However, I've had my reasons each time. Last time, Bob's course was getting so technical and inaccessible. The conceptual leap between chapters 2 and 3 was too much. Plus, no challenges or tasks along the way made it very difficult to stay motivated. So, starting a new Intermediate course from Sandra L. Let's see how we go! Start Time - 15:42 Variables and constants Real basics so far. I think I'll be able to skim a lot of this simple recap. Mutability etc. There's not much need to type anything else - I know this so it's all good! One nice point - a variable is called so because THE VALUE CAN VARY. That's nice and logical! *A key point: it's good changing between courses in the sense that you get a fresh take on a concept or another way of looking at something. Type Inferen...