Teaching and Learning matters.
Feb 21 2017
Source hidden to protect the guilty (who otherwise write very good code, but this jumped out) let urls = FileManager.default.urls(for: .libraryDirectory, in: .userDomainMask) print(urls[urls.count-1] as NSURL) For the searchMask .libraryDirectory, this function always returns an array containing a single URL, [file:///Users/username/Library/] so urls[urls.count-1] will give you urls[0], but it’s not clear from the code that […]
Jan 2 2017
This image captures my experience with a lot of tutorials: they don’t tell you *how* to get from A to B, and if you don’t already have a good idea of what you’re trying to achieve (because you can program and just need to learn a new language/IDE/framework) chances are you’ll fail to learn unless […]
Jan 2 2017
By mere chance I’ve come across the following list of Objective C tutorials on YouTube. (The author also has a couple of introductory Swift tutorials and seems to be continuing his tutorials in Swift, though they have not been updated recently, as far as I can see. He has, as far as I can see, […]
Mar 10 2017
Learn Core Data in 50 Easy Steps!
Find out how at #iOSCon on 31/3 in London… As the title ever-so-gently suggests, CoreData is a complex framework, offering many pitfalls for the wary and unwary alike, and which cannot be learnt in an afternoon. I’ll explore a strategy to break the task of ‘learning CoreData’ into managable chunks, based on the principle that […]
By Extelligent Cocoa • Frameworks, Teaching Programming • • Tags: #iOSCon, conferences