After yesterday’s Mac-sized stumbling block, it’s back to the lesson. Yesterday (and this morning) I learned … Optionals. Optionals are a way to allow an element to hold a nil value, or where the value is absent. An “optional” is a wrapper around an element that exists in one of […]
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Well, I’d like to offer up a blog post regaling the world with what I’ve learned from CodeWithChris today, but I can’t. Today was a case of some enforced learning about the Mac mini. Today, the Mac mini took it upon itself to do … nothing. After watching Chris’ video […]
Today’s lesson, lesson 8 from module 2, builds on yesterday’s insight into MVVM. The challenge requires bringing several things together that we’ve learned up until now. It’s only when you face a challenge like this that you realise how little has actually “sunk in” to the ol’ brain box. But […]
Today I had cause to take my latest CodeWithChris lesson remote. Although the videos can be watched on mobile devices, the need to run Apple’s Xcode in order to participate in the lessons pretty much ties me to my desk. Yes, a Mac mini is quite small and very portable […]
Today I learned … that, okay, yes there is a difference between class and struct. I’m still not fully clear why there needs to be a difference, or why one can’t be used in place of the other, but I’m sure that will become apparent. That difference being the difference […]
So, over the last several days, we’ve been learning many things that have a familiar feel to them. Struct, for instance, reminds me an awful lot of Class from my PHP OOP. Today we learned that we also use Class, which is very similar to Struct, only you can do […]
The reward for taking time to go over the previous lesson in the module is that the next one becomes more understandable. Today I learned … to not rush. It may be tempting to skip over the tough bits in the hope that all will be made clear, but learning […]
Okay, so I’ll admit it. Yesterday’s CodeWithChris challenge from Lesson 1 of Module 2 of the iOS Foundation course threw me out of my mindset for a moment. Having watched the video about arrays, refamiliarising myself with what they are from other languages, and adapting what I knew to what […]