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Swift iOS Programming for Kids

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

By: Steffen D. Sommer, Jim Campagno

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.

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Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Swift iOS Programming for Kids
Swift iOS Programming for Kids
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Customer Feedback
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
What is Programming?
What is Programming?
The Swift programming language
Why is programming important?
What you will learn from this book
Summary
2
Getting Set Up
Getting Set Up
Xcode
Summary
3
Say Hello
Say Hello
What is a console application?
Setting up our first Xcode playground
A quick look at the Xcode interface
Creating our program
Summary
4
Favorite Things
Favorite Things
Variables and constants
Summary
5
Factories
Factories
String and Int
Summary
6
Making Pizza
Making Pizza
How the iPhone runs our program
A simple program without functions
What is a function?
Making our own function
Summary
7
Toy Bin
Toy Bin
Collection types
Summary
8
Smarter Toy Bin
Smarter Toy Bin
Buttercup
Find the buttercup
Summary
9
Making Some Friends
Making Some Friends
OOP
Modeling real-world objects
Our first class
Summary
10
Pokémon Battle
Pokémon Battle
Pokémon type
Summary
11
Simon Says
Simon Says
GUI
Laying out a view
Simon says
Summary
12
Starry Night
Starry Night
A deep dive into UI in iOS
The UIViewController life cycle
Summary
13
Space Pizza Delivery
Space Pizza Delivery
Space Pizza
Summary
14
Movie Night - iOS App
Movie Night - iOS App
How to create a list
Our final application: Movie Night
The interface
Deploying our application to our iPhone
Summary

About the Reviewer

Doug Sparling works as a technical architect and software developer for Andrews McMeel Universal, a publishing and syndication company in Kansas City, MO. At AMU, he uses Go for web services, Python for backend services, Ruby on Rails and WordPress for website development, and Objective-C, Swift, and Java for native iOS and Android development. AMU's sites include www.gocomics.com, www.uexpress.com, www.puzzlesociety.com, and dilbert.com.

He also was the co-author of a Perl book, Instant Perl Modules for McGraw-Hill, and a reviewer for other Packt Publishing books, including jQuery 2.0 Animation Techniques: Beginner's Guide and WordPress Web Application Development. Doug has also played various roles for Manning Publications as reviewer, technical development editor, and proofer, working on books such as Go in Action, The Well-Grounded Rubyist 2nd Edition, iOS Development with Swift, and Programming for Musicians and Digital Artists.

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