While building a calculator-style answer keypad for a multiplication tables practice app, I follow an iOS Academy video that recreates the iOS Calculator in SwiftUI and enjoy spotting edge cases the tutorial’s quick implementation leaves unhandled. I also reflect on copying existing Apple apps as a way to skip design work, and on wanting to improve at design over time...
I briefly recommend Afraz Siddiqui’s iOS Academy YouTube channel, which features iOS development tutorials, including shorter focused videos such as one covering the new SwiftUI chart views...
A short post recommending iOS Academy’s brief video tutorials on Swift iOS programming, with an embedded example covering Grid Views. I reflect on how today’s freely shared Swift and iOS learning material differs from the magazines and thick books I relied on when learning to program before the internet...
While working through cs193p homework, I praise the Swift book’s clear, step-by-step explanation of closures, and by coincidence encounter the same topic twice more that day in a Fireside Swift podcast episode and an iOS Academy video. The post also notes that closures can be challenging without experience passing around function pointers or doing multithreaded programming, and that Swift’s ability to cut the syntax down to very little takes getting used to...
