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  • Minimum Functionality for App Store

    In my post about my first app, EasterDay, I mentioned that it might be too trivial for an App Store submission. I’ve just been reading the App Store Review Guidelines, and there is a section on Minimum Functionality that seems like it might be too pointless for acceptance. I’ll push on and build it anyway…

  • awesome-ios list on GitHub

    I was looking for some more podcasts with Swift fundamentals content when I came across this great community built awesome list. There’s a few podcasts on the list I have not come across, so I’ll check them out.

  • Learning Retention

    In order to have something to put up on GitHub (as part of working all that out) I went back to re-write the Checkpoint 2 code that I’d written, but not saved, three or four days ago. The task was to count the unique elements in an array. The teaching had been about the complex…

  • Checkpoint 4 optimisation

    The Checkpoint 4 task was to find an integer square root of numbers up to 10000. My first pass solution was: Although not coded for speed, there are a couple of subtle optimisations here; the first is that it gives up once it gets to the number instead of going up to the end (it…

  • Gitting Started

    One of my early goals was to get in the habit of using version control with Git/Github, and I’ve got that sorted out today. My source was this excellent, very clear video from Gwen Faraday. I highly recommend it if you are just starting. It possibly helped that I’m also on mac, so I didn’t…

  • Checkpoint 4

  • Tuple Pronunciation

    Another advantage of the videos, that hadn’t occurred to me when I mentioned it the other day, is learning the correct pronunciation of things you’ve only ever read in books. Apparently, tuple is pronounced two-pull, and not with the tup to rhyme with cup as I’d always imagined. Google has confirmed, so it’s not just…