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Swift iOS Programming for Kids

Swift iOS Programming for Kids

By : D. Sommer, Campagno
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Swift iOS Programming for Kids

Swift iOS Programming for Kids

4.2 (5)
By: D. Sommer, Campagno
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Overview of this book

This book starts at the beginning by introducing programming through easy to use examples with the Swift Playgrounds app. Kids are regularly encouraged to explore and play with new concepts to support knowledge acquisition and retention – these newly learned skills can then be used to express their own unique ideas. Children will be shown how to create their first iOS application and build their very own movie night application.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. What is Programming?
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1. What is Programming?
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The Swift programming language
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Why is programming important?
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What you will learn from this book
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Summary
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2. Getting Set Up
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2. Getting Set Up
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Xcode
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Summary
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3. Say Hello
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3. Say Hello
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What is a console application?
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Setting up our first Xcode playground
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A quick look at the Xcode interface
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Creating our program
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Summary
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4. Favorite Things
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4. Favorite Things
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Variables and constants
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Summary
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5. Factories
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5. Factories
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String and Int
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Summary
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6. Making Pizza
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6. Making Pizza
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How the iPhone runs our program
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A simple program without functions
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What is a function?
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Making our own function
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Summary
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7. Toy Bin
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7. Toy Bin
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Collection types
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Summary
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8. Smarter Toy Bin
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8. Smarter Toy Bin
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Buttercup
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Find the buttercup
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Summary
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9. Making Some Friends
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9. Making Some Friends
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OOP
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Modeling real-world objects
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Our first class
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10. Pokémon Battle
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10. Pokémon Battle
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Pokémon type
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11. Simon Says
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11. Simon Says
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GUI
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Laying out a view
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Simon says
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Summary
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12. Starry Night
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12. Starry Night
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A deep dive into UI in iOS
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The UIViewController life cycle
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13. Space Pizza Delivery
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13. Space Pizza Delivery
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Space Pizza
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14. Movie Night - iOS App
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14. Movie Night - iOS App
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How to create a list
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Our final application: Movie Night
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The interface
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Deploying our application to our iPhone
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The UIViewController life cycle

As the requirements for our UI grow, we need to have more granular control of our views. We need to be able to tell what state our view is currently in inside our code. Is it, for example, shown or did the user just close the app? Is the app currently navigating from one view to another or is it just about to be shown, but still loading. All of these states refer to the  life cycle of the UIViewController, which is very important when we want to build a great UI. The life cycle of a view can be overwhelming to dive into, but often we only need a couple of these states in order to make our UIs as we want them to be. The way we handle these states is by implementing certain methods defined by Apple. Then, Apple guarantees to call these methods at the right moment according to the view life cycle. Let's take a look at some of the important states related to the UIViewController:

  • viewDidLoad(): This method will be called after...
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