Tag: ios
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Design Studio FA14 Final project and presentation, Swift Calculator
The last few things tweaked in the calculator are mostly related to the logic of the calculator. Â It is very, very streamlined compared to where I started. Â It was a classic case of I spent about 10 hours to REDUCE the number of lines of code. Â This is where the state diagram was worth its…
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Learning Swift: Calculator App, part 5. Revamping the logic/design
This is part 5 of my Learning Swift Calculator App. This update is mostly about the code structure and design decision about the calculator and its behavior. Technical lessons learned: Adding variable values in the middle of the string is so much easier using the following format – “blah blah blah and I am going…
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Learning Swift: Calculator App, part 4. Autolayout
This is part 4 of my Learning Swift Calculator App. Progress: UI elements will be evenly distributed on any size screen and orientation. Lessons learned: Autolayout is a wonderful thing and Apple does their best to help developers who would prefer to develop using the GUI rather than code, but, if you don’t understand the underlying…
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Learning Swfit: Calculator App, part 2. Case, Auto Layout, Variable types
This is part 2 of my Learning Swift Calculator App. Progress: +, -, x operations are now functional decimals also work Lessons learned: It’s easy to get caught up on a new programming language and forget to use universal concepts of programming that would have made my life a lot easier In my haste (and…
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Learning Swift – Calculator App, part 1
As part of my course work for Design Studio (LDT550) at Penn State, I am learning how to program in Swift (Apple’s iOS programming language) using xCode 6 beta. Â In particular, I am working with Dr. Simon Hooper to get some of the basics down by programming a simple calculator. Here is my progress… First…