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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

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
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Free Chapter
1
1. What is Programming?
1. What is Programming?
The Swift programming language
Why is programming important?
What you will learn from this book
Summary
2
2. Getting Set Up
2. Getting Set Up
Xcode
Summary
3
3. Say Hello
3. 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
4. Favorite Things
4. Favorite Things
Variables and constants
Summary
5
5. Factories
5. Factories
String and Int
Summary
6
6. Making Pizza
6. Making Pizza
How the iPhone runs our program
A simple program without functions
What is a function?
Making our own function
Summary
7
7. Toy Bin
7. Toy Bin
Collection types
Summary
8
8. Smarter Toy Bin
8. Smarter Toy Bin
Buttercup
Find the buttercup
Summary
9
9. Making Some Friends
9. Making Some Friends
OOP
Modeling real-world objects
Our first class
Summary
10
10. Pokémon Battle
10. Pokémon Battle
Pokémon type
Summary
11
11. Simon Says
11. Simon Says
GUI
Laying out a view
Simon says
Summary
12
12. Starry Night
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12. Starry Night
A deep dive into UI in iOS
The UIViewController life cycle
Summary
13
13. Space Pizza Delivery
13. Space Pizza Delivery
Space Pizza
Summary
14
14. Movie Night - iOS App
14. Movie Night - iOS App
How to create a list
Our final application: Movie Night
The interface
Deploying our application to our iPhone
Summary

A deep dive into UI in iOS

In Chapter 11, Simon Says, we created a simple UI with four subviews, each representing a color in the Simon Says memory game. Toward the end of the chapter, we tried to run our application on a device with a different screen size and noted how our UI elements did not scale and the interface ended up looking different from how we wanted it to look. In this section, we will dive deeper into how GUI works in order to come up with a better strategy to lay out our UI.

The view hierarchy

A UI in iOS is built using something we refer to as views. A view represents an element, such as an icon, menu, text field, or a button. A view can have multiple child views or subviews and a view can have one parent view. Let's illustrate this with a simple example:

The view hierarchy

This UI is supposed to look like a chat interface, where the user of the app is able to write messages back and forth with John. Let's go through the different UI...

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