Josh's Swift Journey

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...