Week 1 of ISYS2160 — Learn to Program Using Swift & SwiftUI for iOS Development — Online.
Update: My feelings has changed about online learning, please check Week Two Review for more information.
Thanks to Twitter, or better yet my new favorite social media Mastodon, I came across #BCSwift or as it is known online iOSCodeCrush, a Swift course taught by professor Gallaugher from Boston College.
And since I want to win the Apple WWDC23 Challenge that is coming up soon, I wanted to learn how to code with Swift! And by the way, I will go into more detail about my experience with learning Swift which is a journey on its own; and also my interactions with professor Gallaugher , but I want you to know that my knowledge is close to zero with Swift and I’m starting fresh.
Now that you know how I came across the course. I will talk about doing the work for week one, which was an enriching experience to say the least, which had the following:
A) Setting up Xcode and GitHub account and connecting Github to Xcode.
My thoughts: I liked the first video session because it was set up to make you a developer by design, it makes you…
