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New Toys! Animating Images

New Toys! Animating Images > The Code Hub I had a great question from a teacher at a secondary school here in Ireland about animating images in a Swift Playground. The question was basically: How do I do it in a playground with Swift? You can go to the source, of course, and check out the documentation, but I’ve added a new playground …...

More Advanced Apps: Segues and Navigation Controllers

More Advanced Apps: Segues and Navigation Controllers > The Code Hub We’re in the thick of a hackathon project and some students are plowing ahead with their prototypes and looking to turn them into full-blown apps. In this new video I walk you through a pretty common scenario. Many of our apps are going to have more than one screen. And what appears on subsequent ...

App Development Workshop Follow Up - take your Develop in Swift knowledge and apply it now!

App Development Workshop Follow Up > The Code Hub I hope you’re all enjoying the summer. It’s been sunny and warm in Ireland, thank goodness, so we’ve been spending our time outdoors as much as possible! But we did get inside to do some coding when we recently ran a series of workshops to introduce new coders to the Develop in Swift series as...

DocC for Building Tutorials - Announced at and we get to ship stuff built with it now!

DocC for Building Tutorials > The Code Hub One of my favorite things from WWDC21 this year was the DocC stuff. The funny thing is, I had NO IDEA it would be one of my favorites until Saturday, when I was catching up on some sessions. There are the heavy hitters, of course, like the SwiftUI sessions, the announcement that you’ll be able …...

Favorites?
A little poll for you... who knows, maybe we add more content to Teaching Develop in Swift online...

WWDC Favorites? > The Code Hub I hope you’re all enjoying WWDC21 so far! There’s so much to chew on, from SwiftUI improvements and additions, Xcode Cloud, RealityKit additions, Object Capture, Accessibility. AND BUILDING APPS IN SWIFT PLAYGROUNDS! But I’d love to hear from you, what is the most exciting technology or thing ...

Build your own QuestionBot.
Celebrate by trying your hand at some Swift code!

Build your own QuestionBot > The Code Hub Happy WWDC! It’s that magical time of year when developers working on Apple platforms have all their dreams come true! Well, okay, maybe not, but we get a very fun week of new tech and demos and excitement about the platform. If you’re watching all of this (or watching the people watching it and...

Inspired by some recent teacher questions via email and Twitter, I threw together some more advanced Swift Playgrounds. Adventures! Right now there are two of them. As Swift Playgrounds, they're designed to run in the Playgrounds app on your iPad, so you can take your code on the go with you, or monkey around with them in the Playgrounds app on your Mac....

The Code Hub: Adventures! New Swift Playgrounds > The Code Hub Inspired by some recent teacher questions via email and Twitter, I threw together some more advanced Swift Playgrounds. Adventures! Right now there are two of them. As Swift Playgrounds, they’re designed to run in the Playgrounds app on your iPad, so you can take your code on the go with you, or m...

WWDC21 Wish List - Like Christmas in June!

WWDC21 Wish List > The Code Hub Last year we had a little wish list for WWDC, so I figured I would take a look at what we’d love to see today. Last Year Well, first, what did we get last year? From our list, we did wind up getting new books, a whole load of them! Some didn’t ship during WWDC, … Continue reading "WWDC21 Wish ...

We're going to be back (online) teaching you how to teach the Develop in Swift material -- Explorations, Fundamentals, and Data Collections -- in June! If you're an educator thinking about teaching Swift and app development (or already doing it), this is a really fun, packed week. Coming June 21st! We'll be holding hands-on workshops, lectures from the books, special sessions, and some takeaway projects you can run with your own classrooms....

Teaching Develop in Swift Online - June Edition > The Code Hub We’re going to be back (online) teaching you how to teach the Develop in Swift material — Explorations, Fundamentals, and Data Collections — in June! If you’re an educator thinking about teaching Swift and app development (or already doing it), this is a really fun, packed week. We’ll be h...

Teaching and Presenting with Keynote
A new video with some tips on presenting the Keynote slides.

Teaching and Presenting with Keynote > The Code Hub When I’m teaching teachers how to teach coding we spend a lot of time in Keynote. The excellent Develop in Swift series, from Apple, comes with a whole set of keynote files for presenting nearly every lesson in the book. If you download the teacher materials from the Teacher Guide, you’ll find t...

Creating Xcode Playgrounds: a quick video tutorial

Creating Xcode Playgrounds > The Code Hub On the back of our Swift Playground series, I created a quick video to show you how to create an Xcode Playground, like the ones you would use if you’re taking (or teaching) the Develop in Swift material. You can watch it below or head off to YouTube: You’ll find out how to create additional …...