Category Archives: Swift

Finished ‘iOS App Development with Swift’ specialization at Coursera

Posted on 07/03/2016 by Pascal Alma

As I mentioned before I am working my way through Coursera’s specialization track ‘iOS App Development with Swift‘ that is given by the university of Toronto. Today I heard I accomplished the third part of the total of four. I … Continue reading →

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My first Swift App is in the AppStore

Posted on 06/03/2016 by Pascal Alma

As I have mentioned in my posts for the last months I have been busy mastering the Swift language and XCode to be able to build iOS applications. I am proud to announce that my first app has made it … Continue reading →

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Example of using extensions in Swift

Posted on 19/01/2016 by Pascal Alma

Recently I needed a image in my iOS app that was oscillating. I ran into an example of Swift code that showed how to do it and it was actually quite easy to do (for the theory behind the formula … Continue reading →

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Starting developing in Swift: Using GitLab with XCode

Posted on 16/12/2015 by Pascal Alma

As showed in my previous post I have set up a GitLab account so I can host my Git repositories there. In this post I will show how you can combine XCode (v7.1) with GitFlow and GitLab. In fact I … Continue reading →

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Starting developing in Swift: setting up version control with GitLab

Posted on 07/12/2015 by Pascal Alma

Now that I have received my grade for the second part of the Coursera iOS with Swift specialisation I decided it is time to get started to build my own app. The first thing to do (as a professional developer … Continue reading →

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Next step with Swift

Posted on 18/11/2015 by Pascal Alma

As I said in my previous post I really like building some fun apps with Swift. I also mentioned that to gather a more fundamental understanding I subscribed to the Coursera specialization course ‘iOS App Development with Swift Specialization‘. I … Continue reading →

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The first steps with Swift

Posted on 12/10/2015 by Pascal Alma

As I posted before I am currently using my sparse spare time to learn more about Apple’s new program language: Swift. As I said I started by following the excellent examples of Paul Hudson on his site ‘Hacking with Swift‘. … Continue reading →

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Hacking with Swift

Posted on 23/09/2015 by Pascal Alma

A few weeks ago I started to look into Swift, the (rather) new programming language of Apple to build OS X and iOS apps. I decided to look into something different from building (enterprise) systems with Java (although there is … Continue reading →

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