Category: KinderSwift tutorial
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A Swift Tutorial for Working with Classes Part 3: Abstract classes.
In the first tutorial in this series we introduced classes. In the second we did some more advanced manipulations of classes. In both, we discussed the idea of inheritance, which has one final possibility: a class whose only purpose is to define other classes. This is known as an abstract class. Abstract classes are mere…
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Kinderswift 9: Strings
Transcript Hello, welcome to Kinderswift Lesson 9. I’m Steve from makeapppie.com So far we’ve worked with numbers and colors, but what if you wanted to work with text? The basic text type in Swift is String. Like a literal Double of 3.5, we can have a literal String. Enclose String literals in quotes like this…
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Kinderswift 8 Challenge Answers
Watch the video for any commentary. Here are two answers. There a lot of possible ones. Answer 1 Answer 2
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Kinderswift 8: Making Your Own Functions
Transcript In our last lesson we learned about functions. Swift, and most modern programming languages are nothing more than writing groups of your own functions. In this lesson, we will write our own functions. In our last lesson you may remember this function Which made varying colors of gray. Let’s start by making our own…
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KinderSwift 7: Introduction to Functions
This session we will learn about functions by making colors with UIColor. Transcript Welcome to lesson 7 of KinderSwift. In our last lesson we used this to convert a Int into a Double and this to convert a Double into a Int. Both of these are functions. Functions take the data within the parentheses and…
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KinderSwift 6: Types and Casting
In this lesson we cover how to explicitly type an identifier and how to use casting to force its type. Transcript Welcome back to kinderswift. episode 6. In our last lesson, we left off with this not working: Swift does not let you mix types. This lesson we will learn a little more about types…
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KinderSwift 4: Increments and Math Operators
In this episode, we’ll finish looking at the integer math operators, and talk a bit about how to count by one and two using increment operators. Transcript Welcome back to Kinderswift. Let’s continue from where we left off last time.In our last session, we used the let and var statements. let and var statements are…
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KinderSwift Tutorials for Swift Episode 1: Intro and Downloading Xcode
The first in a series of tutorials for beginner programmers using Swift. Transcript Welcome to Kinderswift, a video based course to learn basic programming using swift, Apple’s new language for Mac os X and iOS development. I’m Steve of MakeAppPie.com and I’ll be your instructor for this course on programming in Swift. While there are…