Ios 2015 Kickoff - Key

Learn iOS
Programming 2015
Pittsburgh CocoaHeads / SwiftFeet
WiFi: Preciousss / cocoaheads

(My phone. Be gentle.)
http://bit.ly/cocoaheads-learn-ios
The Book
Chris Adamson
@invalidname
Janie Clayton
@redqueencoder
http://pragprog.com
Beta 4 is current
Beta 5 Real Soon Now
The Tools
Version 6.1 Swift

(not beta) (moving target)
As of February 12, 2015. These will change over the next couple of months as newer versions of Xcode, and hence
Swift, come out.
The Procedure
Each Month here at CocoaHeads
review of the previous 4 chapters
kick-off for the next 4 chapters
You all read through and work on the next 4

chapters
Repeat until we run out of book!
Got Questions?
MarkD
@borkware (AIM, Twitter, Skype)
markd@borkware.com
SeanM
@mccuneware (Twitter)
pghcoder@mac.com (IChant, AIM)
sean.mccune@gmail.com
Google Group
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/cocoaheads-pittsburgh
The Project Page

We'll post the keynotes and hopefully videos too.
You got questions? We've got blank stares!

!
ASK US QUESTIONS! This is the value-add. One thing I find when I work through a book or something is I get stuck.
Some compiler error. Some thing I just don't understand. I'd much rather spend 5-10 minutes to save you an hour of
banging your head against the wall.
!
Granted, head-banging can be useful, but it has diminishing returns. Think about a problem, and if you don't get it -
drop one of us a line. I'm typically around during regular business hours and over the weekends if you have a live
question, or drop one of us an email. Don't bug Chris or Janie :-)
The Realities
Programming is hard! (let's go shopping!)
If you have zero programming experience, expect to work
The tools are moving targets

#ilyxc hashtag
Swift undergoing changes that break code
The book is beta, and is chasing the same targets
It is a fun platform, though
Anyone who writes books about Apple platforms are insane in the membrane. Apple feels no compunction when
they make changes, sometimes blatantly gratuitous, to existing tools, procedures, and with Swift, the fundamental
programming language.
The Book's Approach
Mix of
Programming Language and Tools
API
Software topics (refactoring, debugging, testing)
Single sample Twitter app throughout
This is the approach that Chris and Janie take with the book.
!
It's not an exhaustive tour of programming interfaces - those were 600 page books way back in 2009! But more of a
"here's how the platform works, here's some stuff and how it works, and here's some skills to get you going in your
own direction"
Other Resources
Big Nerd Ranch iOS Bootcamps
Apple's Swift Book
Dan Steinberg's Swift Kickstart

http://editorscut.com/Books/SwiftKickstart
Apple's Developer Forums

http://devforums.apple.com
Erica Sadun
Blog - http://ericasadun.com
IRC - #swift-lang on irc.freenode.net
There are lots and lots of resources.

Apple's swift book is the closest we come to a description of the language. You can
get it from the app store
I like Dan Steinberg's stuff. His Swift Kickstart is good
The swift folks hang out in apples dev forums
Erica Sadun has been a prolific writer in the ios space. She's got a blog that's chock full of swift fun, and she
"moderates" (as close as any irc group can be moderated) the irc channel.
The Agenda
The Agenda: February
Playing Around with Xcode
Building Adaptive User Interfaces
Programming in Swift for iOS
Testing Apps
The Agenda: March 12
Presenting Data in Table Views
Waiting for things to happen with closures
Doing two things at once with closures
Growing the Application
The Agenda: April 9
Navigating between View Controllers
Taking Advantage of Large Screens
Recognizing Gestures
Working with Photos
The Agenda: May 14
Launching, Backgrounding, and Extensions
Debugging Apps
Publishing to the App Store
Added bonus, source code control!
February's Fun
Suggested Approach
for February
Week 1 - Playing Around with Xcode
Week 1 - Building Adaptive User Interfaces
Week 2 and 3 - Programming in Swift for iOS
Week 4 - Testing Apps
Chapter 3, "Programming in Swift for iOS" is by far the largest chapter in the book. The first two are kind of short,
and very straightforward in getting you oriented to Xcode and the built-in Interface Builder stuff.
!
Week 4's chapter covers some software engineering practices - how and why to test, and intro to test driven
development.
Two kinds of Nothing
Difference between "nothing" and "no value"
Data field for "fax machine number"
There's a big difference between

I don't know if this user has a fax number
vs
this user has no fax number
BUILD -> data field for fax machine number

BUILD -> big difference
database systems have a NULL value, along with all the joy of that.
Optionals
var a : Int!
var x : Int?!
!
...!
!
if let realX = x {!
// use realX becuase it exists!
}
Yay Xcode!
And now a demo showing playgrounds, a little swift, and IBActions and IBOutlets

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Learn iOS

WiFi: Preciousss / cocoaheads

Version 6.1 Swift

review of the previous 4 chapters

kick-off for the next 4 chapters

You all read through and work on the next 4

Repeat until we run out of book!

The Project Page

You got questions? We've got blank stares!

The tools are moving targets

The book is beta, and is chasing the same targets

It is a fun platform, though

Programming Language and Tools

Software topics (refactoring, debugging, testing)

Single sample Twitter app throughout

Apple's Swift Book

Dan Steinberg's Swift Kickstart

Apple's Developer Forums

There are lots and lots of resources.

Playing Around with Xcode

Building Adaptive User Interfaces

Programming in Swift for iOS

Presenting Data in Table Views

Waiting for things to happen with closures

Doing two things at once with closures

Growing the Application

Navigating between View Controllers

Taking Advantage of Large Screens

Working with Photos

Launching, Backgrounding, and Extensions

Publishing to the App Store

Added bonus, source code control!

Week 1 - Playing Around with Xcode

Week 1 - Building Adaptive User Interfaces

Week 2 and 3 - Programming in Swift for iOS

Week 4 - Testing Apps

Data field for "fax machine number"

There's a big difference between

BUILD -> data field for fax machine number

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