The very first part of the course is usually done in a linear fashion using the website. However, I took there first part of the course on my iPad app which handles it a little differently.
That being said, there will be a jump from Day 10 to Day 16.
You are not imagining things and I am not really skipping around.
Onward and upward…and possibly backwards, at times.
Learning a ton on this one. Optionals never really made much sense to me but I have to admit, Paul is great at explaining the concepts.
Not gonna lie…
This one kinda lost me. I’m sure this will come in handy when I am wondering why something isn’t quite working.
Classes are another fascination for me.
New things:
1. Final Class
2. Copying Object
3. Deinitializers
Ok. This one took a couple of days to get to but I am finally through it.
This is what attracted me to OOP (object oriented programming) in the first place. Structs are objects.
I’ve always struggled with initializers and after this section, I finally feel like I understand them a bit better.
Yes. Now I have (3) days worth of material to get through to be up to date. I am part way through Structs.
Should be able to do this today.
Probably one of my least favorite things.
It seems a bit ridiculous because I guess we’re just not using practical examples. I don’t see where I would ever want to use these.
I’m just clicking through the quizzes and that it terrible but that is how enthusiastic I feel about closures.
This is a lesson that I couldn’t wait to get through.
Tomorrow is Structs and I actually like those.
Variadic is a new term for me. The ability to pass many things into your function by using…
func square(numbers: Int…) {
for number in numbers {
print(“\(number) squared is \(number * number)”)
{
{
square(numbers: 1,2,3,4,5)
1 squared is 1
2 squared is 4
3 squared is 9
4 squared is 16
5 squared is 25
This is something I haven’t used before but I might in the future.
Today, we went over the various types of loops.
Most of the loops covered, I don’t use. I still enjoyed visiting them again.
If I post nothing else in the next 96 days, it will most certainly be a Swift update!
This is one of my favorite topics and one of the first reasons I fell in love with programming back in the 80s. I love logic statements and how you can create a program that can “reason” things out.
Complex data types and I are not friends but I muddled through the 2nd day.
I don’t use most of the data types that we went over nor can I see right now where I would use some of them in my day to day work.
That either means that I don’t really need them or that I really do need them but are too stupid to realize it.
I am working through 100 Days of SwiftUI. I’ve been watching Paul Hudson videos for a while and he is a great teacher when it comes to Swift in general.
I highly recommend the FREE course if you are interested in programming in Swift.
Post my progress on here daily? Absolutely.
Topics covered…
Group: Simple Types
Variables
Strings and Integers
Multi-line strings
Doubles and Booleans
String interpolation
Constants
Type annotations
Tomorrow: Complex Types
