Okay, so using my Mac mini from another room via VNC on my Windows 11 laptop is never going to be a smooth experience, let’s get that set from the start. On some occasions, needs must and you do what you have to do. Ten days ago, my Mac mini […]
Monthly archives: March 2022
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Lesson 3 of Module 1 of the CodeWithChris Design Course introduces us to Path(). This element effectively allows you to “draw” a shape based on coordinates, a bit like a primitive CAD drawing (something I’m very used to). It gets a bit complicated with where the drawing’s origin point is […]
Lesson 2 of Module 1 from the CodeWithChris Design Course is to recreate a design using just the shapes elements in SwiftUI. I think I got pretty close! I did have to look up what was possible with the RoundedRectangle() but, after that, it was all just about playing around […]
Okay, a new day and a new module. I had a choice to go with the CodeWithChris Design Course, or the Database Course, now that I’ve completed the iOS Foundations course. I have a really keen interest in databases as I’ve used them a lot in the past with web […]
It’s taken a little under two months to complete the CodeWithChris iOS Foundations course (which includes the free ’14 Day Beginners Challenge’ course). Today, I undertook to print off all the files used by each app that we’ve created during the course. One thing that surprised me enormously, on looking […]
Before finishing the iOS Foundations course from CodeWithChris, Chris invites us to upgrade / enhance module 5’s Recipe List app with an additional “categories” filter. This involves adding a new “tab” to the TabView to show the ‘Categories’ button, and a new view that combines the GeometryReader, ScrollView, LazyVGrid (a […]
Having completed Module 6 of the iOS Foundations course from CodeWithChris, the iOS Foundations course concludes with a couple of bonus modules. The first one includes a handful of videos explaining the process of how to prepare an app for Apple’s App Store. This requires being signed up to the […]
It’s been 14 days since I started the CodeWithChris iOS Foundations Module 6 course and, today, after many ups and downs, bug-hunting, and suffering the struggle of running the Xcode behemoth on a silver-haired little Mac mini, I’ve finally reached the finish line of the app. We’ve covered an awful […]