Month: April 2015

This is the fourth Swift tutorial and video in a series I'm doing on Swift development. Source code examples are available on GitHub In this tutorial, we’re going to take a look at Swift computed properties and how they work. We’re going to create a very simple GoalTracker class. All our GoalTracker class is going to do is track our progress through something, i.e. how many miles or...

This is the third post and screencast in a series I'm doing on Swift development. Source code examples are available on GitHub Singletons are a popular design pattern in programming. If you are new to Swift, you may be wondering how you can create singletons in Swift. In Objective-C, you might have tried Grand Central Dispatch's dispatch_once to create a singleton. Well, the other day, I came...

My latest screencast is now available! This time I cover var vs. let in Swift. Topics I cover include: - The difference between Var and Let - Examples of variable values types like Strings and Ints - How properties of reference types, like Classes, are affected - I show an example using multiple classes and properties including inherited properties - I demonstrate how properties of constant...

My first screencast on Swift development covers an introduction into Swift Arrays. This is the first screencast in a series I'm doing on Swift development. Here's some topics that I cover in this video: - How to create an array in Swift - Declaration and Initialization of arrays in Swift - Retrieving an item from an array - Adding to a Swift array - Iterating over the items in a Swift array The...

I'm excited to announce that I am releasing a series of screencasts on Swift development. I'm going to cover a variety of topics on Swift development over the coming weeks. Stayed tuned for more! However, I decided to discontinue my series on "Swift for Rubyists". I've felt that I can cover more topics in getter detail using screencasts and covering Swift in general. Hope you enjoy the new...