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Category: Swift
What are Delegates and Protocols?
As I am preparing for my first iOS job and studying for interviews. One area that I feel a bit intimidated by is the idea of protocols and delegates. They seem to always be connected but are they really can we use one without the other? I think we can but then why are they… Continue reading What are Delegates and Protocols?
iOS Persistence and Core Data part2
This article goes into Core Data and how it works in a high level way. It is referred to as the Core Data Stack and I will attempt at breaking it down.
iOS Persistence and Core Data
There are 3 ways that an app can save items to the iOS system. This is how an iOS application will save things when you close and come back to it later. This is part 1 of 2.
5 things I wish I knew when first learning Swift
I often wonder if I could've gotten to where I am in a quicker way and there are things that I wish I knew before I started and this is a list of the 5 that stick out in my mind.
Building an iOS version of the Conway’s Game Of Life
Lambda school had us create an application in which users will be able to run different "Game of Life" scenarios. It was a bit of a challenge but it was fun.
Lambda School – iOS Development Bootcamp – Week 14 & 15
This sprint was titled, Intermediate Swift. That got me thinking so everything we had done for the past 13 weeks was all beginning swift. There is so much to learn about this, yikes!! But it's ok I can get through this. We started off learning about swift generics, luckily I had done some reading and… Continue reading Lambda School – iOS Development Bootcamp – Week 14 & 15
Lambda School – iOS Development Bootcamp – Week 12 & 13
After a very discouraging two weeks, we moved on to learning CoreData. It was very refreshing to learn something new that didn't involve any design. Core Data was in no way easy but it was easier than programmatic UI design, Core graphics and animations. Core Data CoreData to me was like working with databases. I… Continue reading Lambda School – iOS Development Bootcamp – Week 12 & 13
Lambda School – iOS Development Bootcamp – Week 10 & 11
I knew it was bound to happen I just didn't know when it would but I had to hit that learning wall at some point and this was it. I got through it but I struggled.
The iPhone app that Google and I built
My first complete app from concept to finished product all by myself. I struggled, I cried, I laughed, I got super excited and I repeated this several times over and over again, but it was worth it.
Claudia Maciel 