{"id":91,"date":"2017-03-08T02:41:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T02:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redquark.com\/wp\/?p=91"},"modified":"2017-04-02T02:42:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-02T02:42:25","slug":"first-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redquark.com\/wp\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"Intro to iOS: First Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have finished the first two\u00a0sections of &#8220;Intro to iOS App Development with Swift&#8221;. Each section took me approximately forty-five minutes to watch, following along as I did so. Your mileage may vary, depending on whether or not you have Xcode installed and how familiar you are with it.<\/p>\n<p>I am glad to see that the course has (mostly) kept up with the latest versions of Xcode and Swift. \u00a0This is especially important with Swift, because Swift 3 is dramatically improved over earlier iterations of the language. I was also pleased to actually learn some things: 1) Some useful keyboard shortcuts (that, had I been paying attention, I should have known already), and 2) How to quickly identify which user-interface elements are connected to bits of IBAction and IBOutlet code. Small things, yes, but at this rudimentary level I was not expecting anything really. I was also pleased that they demonstrated how things can go slightly awry and that this is normal and OK in the short-term and can eventually be overcome with a little thought and care.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, a very good beginning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have finished the first two\u00a0sections of &#8220;Intro to iOS App Development with Swift&#8221;. Each section took me approximately forty-five minutes to watch, following along as I did so. Your mileage may vary, depending on whether or not you have Xcode installed and how familiar you are with it. I am glad to see that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ios-developer-nanodegree"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redquark.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redquark.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redquark.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redquark.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redquark.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/redquark.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/redquark.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redquark.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redquark.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redquark.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}