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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

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