CODE SOUP

Why aren’t my commits showing up on my GitHub contributions graph?

Access Control in Swift

The keywords “public” “private” and “static” and others appear quite often in example code, answers on Stack Overflow, and projects on GitHub. What are they and what do they mean?

What is Access Control?

How to build a solid Github profile

Swift 3 — APIs , Network Requests, & JSON: Parsing the data, Using the data

In the first part of this 2-part series, Getting the data, I showed you how to make a network request to get data from a url. I used URLSession and showed you multiple variations on this.

Swift 3 — APIs , Network Requests, & JSON: Getting the data

(updated code to Swift 3 on Apr 12, 2017)

There are many cases where you’ll want to access data from an API and use that data in your app. This can make your app quite useful. In a technical interview…

Guard Statement — Swift

When you see something like this in your code

if let secondThing = firstThing {
     if let thirdThing = secondThing {
          if let fourthThing = thirdThing {
               print(fourthThing)
          }
     }
}

Submitting Apps

App Store, here I come.

I’m in the process of submitting several apps to the App Store. Due to several rounds of feedback from people who have tested my apps, submitting them has taken a bit longer than expected. But the feedback has been really good and the apps are…

Learning to Code, Week 15

CocoHeads meeting, working on my app

Day 1

Attended a CocoHeads meeting in Lehi. Received lots of feedback for DevMountain and bootcamps.

Person #1

Learning to Code, Week 14

Closures, classes, structures, about General Assembly’s iOS course

Day 1

Closures = Self-contained blocks of functionality that can be passed around and used in your code

• Makes me think of functions and…