A few familiar themes tonight – the concept of looping is obviously common across every language, but some of the syntax in Swift is unique. Also familiar is that my late night approach to taking the tests following the videos leads to me making sloppy mistakes. Perhaps I should adjust my coronavirus lockdown schedule to allow […]
Three days in a row and I’m still here. I felt a bit sharper today and was able to navigate most of the information without too many surprises. Loads of overlap here with most other languages I’ve worked with, which helps. Conditionals without parentheses do look a bit strange to me – it’ll take some getting […]
I’m back for a second day. That’s something, right? In my programming experience, I’ve never encountered the word tuple before. The concept is somewhat familiar, as it seems a bit like PHP’s key/value pairings within arrays – though I guess that’s more closely related to a dictionary in Swift. I’m not sure I can clearly articulate the […]
I’ve begun the 100 days of SwiftUI. Today is day 1, Simple Types. Impressed with the amount and quality of content that author/creator Paul Hudson has put online for free. Impressive. Fortunately most the of the first day material is review for me, but I did learn that you can do multi-line strings in code […]