Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Dev90X: Zero to App in 90 Days
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Dev90X: Zero to App in 90 Days
By Jack Cotton-BrownTechnology
Dev90X: Zero to App in 90 Days episodes
- Day 40: iPhone 13, Apple Watch 7, new iPads... What does this mean for me? Working with... Action and Vision, Xcode, Documentation.
Discussion:
- What does the new gear mean for me?
- Apple Watch integrations
- Wide angle front facing cameras on the iPad
Progress Update:
- Watched the Apple Event to check out the new tech
- Apple is pushing a lot of fitness applications to have Apple watch features.
- Cool to see they featured Swing Vision again in this.
- Hacking around the Action and Vision app
- Making my own comments where I might find useful snippets of code. I can come back to these later and use them as inspiration for my own code design.
- Re-watching the Apple video explanation of the code powering this app. Getting slightly more out of it the second time through.
- General research - google, stack overflow, and youtube.
- Found a new project called “Guess my exercise”!
dev90x.com
10 min - Day 39: Hurry up and fail. Also, embrace imperfection. Working with... Xcode.
Progress Update:
- Created a copy of Yoga vision, now I can edit the files without worrying about breaking the build
- I didn’t know how to roll back the changes, so I just copied the entire project folder.
- Almost finished lecture 3 of Stanford
- 1 Hour treadmill walk. Watched a bunch of mini tutorials from a playlist on Paul Hudsons YouTube channel.
- Worked 4 hours for someone else, also on what may become an app, which is very useful for me.
Life Update:
- Failed at reducing caffeine with the matcha this morning.
- The pros and cons with working from cafes
dev90.com
14 min - Day 38: I’m breaking all the rules. Should I stop breaking the rules? Working with... Xcode, Stanford iOS course, Learn to code 2 (Swift Playgrounds).
Day 38.
Progress Update:
- Breaking the rules: learning from multiple courses/sources.
- Finished lecture 2 of the Stanford course - definitely useful bits and pieces
- There are 16 lectures in the series - each is about 90 minutes long
- Learned the MVC architecture is specific to UIKit/storyboard apps whereas MVVM architecture is for SwiftUI apps.
- Finished the Variables module in Learn to code 2 in Swift Playgrounds.
- There is a total of 45 small puzzles to solve in the whole sequence. They each probably take about 5-10 minutes on average.
- Downloaded an app called Handstand Quest that is most similar to my concept, but uses voice control for tracking - I will have a go at using this app and see what I can learn.
- Started defaulting to the “Unwrap” app on my phone for learning
- Thinking about doing Paul’s course 100 days of swift because I like his teaching style.
Life Update:
- Caffeine withdrawals have landed! Woke up with a headache in the back of my head.
- Rainy season has landed!
- Still reading Harry Potter in Bahasa - now up to 58% through the book.
- Cut back significantly on Duolingo - just one lesson per day to maintain my streak.
dev90x.com
23 min - Day 37: Accelerated learning through debugging. Working with... Xcode, debugger, iPhone 12, print(everything).
Day 37.
- You don't need bugs to use the debugger!
- Working with YogaVision again.
- Fixed issues with problems building the app on my device.
- Working on relaxing more.
- Working on drinking less coffee.
dev90x.com
13 min - Day 36: I wrote my first app! Working with... Xcode, Google, YouTube.
Day 36.
- Finally writing my own code. Feels good!
- I wrote an app using SwiftUI, with a single button, that plays a sound when you press it.
dev90x.com
6 min - Day 35: Video game music trained me to stay focused for hours. Working with... Swift Playgrounds (Learn to Code 1), Sean Allen on YouTube.
Day 35.
A pretty short day as life sometimes gets in the way.
-Finished Learn to Code 1 in Swift Playgrounds!
-Started a Youtube video series by Sean Allen about iOS coding interview questions, which turned out to be really insightful information!
-Worked out in the morning.
-Helped a friend with a photoshoot.
-Helped another friend move her stuff out from the room I'm living in.
dev90x.com
7 min - Day 34: All I do is go off on tangents! Random, tangential learning. Working with... Hacking With Swift, Paul Hudson, Xcode, Youtube, Stack Overflow.
Day 34.
-Bigger time blocks equal better learning outcomes.
-Learned a lot of syntax.
-Grasping Object Oriented concepts better.
-Learning about inheritance, classes, sub classes, super classes etc.
-Learning about override.
...and more!
dev90x.com
17 min - Day 33: Read code. Just read code. Working with... Xcode, Github, Apple Developer Documentation.
Day 33.
-Realised what I've been doing wrong.
-Started reading code again.
-Studied documentation.
-Lots of Google searches.
-Back in the gym with my personal trainer.
dev90x.com
14 min - Day 32: Really enjoying the Stanford iOS development course! Working with... Stanford, Swift Playgrounds (Learn to code 1).
Day 32.
Not a huge amount happened as I gave my main work block away to someone else.
- Lecture 2 of Stanford iOS course
-3 more modules of Learn to code 1 from Swift playgrounds.
dev90x.com
9 min - Day 31: How not to get scammed on Fiverr. Working with... Fiverr, Xcode Playgrounds, Swift.org.
Day 31.
-The lead on a coder with Abdullah is proving to show more signs of scamminess
-Requested that I pay in Crypto.
-Github has zero activity on it.
-Linked me to his profile just by plain text username - so I had to go searching myself.
-Started reading the Swift Documentation on Swift.org - created a shortcut on my iphone using Safari.
-Downloaded Swift Playgrounds on the Mac
-Doing Learn to Code 1
-Read a bit more code from Action and Vision
Dev90x.com
12 min
About Dev90X: Zero to App in 90 Days
From the publisher's feed
Join me on my journey to ship an app in 90 days from near-zero developer experience.
- Explore the landscape of tools and resources together with me as I discover new things.
- Learn with me as I make mistakes.
- Experience the process that a beginner goes through, from a real beginner.
- See if YOU have what it takes to do the same!