Category: Education

  • Polishing the Wheel

    I am “making” an app with a log in screen, and using Parse as the back end, though this works for any login situation. I wanted a simple way to dismiss multiple view controllers using only code. The key word is “simple”. For some reason I was being stubborn and didn’t want to use a navigation…

  • Yeah, Github

    My good buddy Github. Or as I like to call it, “Git”. We’re close like that. Ok, maybe not as close as an aspiring developer and a version control system should be. Since we are in confession mode, I will admit, I have not used Git on a large scale mode. For personal use, it…

  • Mmmmm…. Success!!!

    Or something that tastes a bit like it! I know, last post, I said I would discuss my foray into Github. I was premature with that statement. I was running into an issue where I needed something to run (func1), but only AFTER something else did (func2), because func2 depended on the results of func1.…

  • Roadblocks are a necessary pain

    Ouch. That is how I feel after my encounter with NSJSONSerialization… In the tutorial, there is instruction on how to handle a simple JSON object, but I needed something for nested content. Add that to Swift’s changing language, and (from what I have NOT been able to find), the poor documentation on the subject, I feel…

  • Plowing through

    So, on iOS, I just completed a tutorial for downloading and scraping web content to post in an app. I am not going to debate the usefulness of such a practice, it can be beneficial as even today, every site may not have an API for public use. I will instead voice my frustration at…

  • Reality Pokes Its Head In…

    …takes a look, and is disappointed. The accountability aspect is starting to take hold. It is VERY easy to say I’m going to do 1, 2 & 3. It  is another to blow it off. And completely another to look back and see the progress, or in this case, the lack thereof. To say the…

  • Progress!!!

    “Accountability” goes a long way into guilting someone into doing something they have been wanting to do for some time. As of tonight, section 3 of the iOS 9 course has been completed. (which relates roughly to about 10% of the course.)  The iOS course is still basically review for me at the moment. But it…

  • And I’m back

    I was gone for a bit, but now I’m back. Moving is so time consuming… As of today, 140 lessons completed on FreeCodeCamp. It’s some progress, but not as much as there should be. Also, FreeCodeCamp was going through a few changes. They no longer outsource the javascript and jQuery items to CodeAcademy. Plus, they have…

  • The progress continues

    Two nights ago, exercise 75 was completed in Free Code Camp. Ironically, for the last few of them, we were sent over to Code Academy for their jQuery tutorials. It’s like bringing the past and the present together! These were a smidge more challenging as it has been a little bit since I’ve needed jQuery. I…

  • Beginning a Journey

    Last night, I signed up for an account at Free Code Camp. *insert cheering here* I had known about this site for about 2 weeks, but it took me this long to get it going. Why? I don’t know. But that is why I am here, to try and overcome these issues. I have previously…