Month: April 2015

My adventures in learning iOS Swift programming

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For the last couple of years, I attempted to learn iOS Obj-C programming using a variety of sources: Lynda.com, Stanford iTunesU, YouTube, Learning Tree, and some books. I wrote a couple of very light apps and let my skills deteriorate.

Fast forward to 2015… I decided to pick up iOS programming again. This time learning Swift, Apple’s new programming language. I started watching video tutorials on Lynda.com. Learned the fundamentals of the language pretty quickly. Then switched to Stanford iTunesU. Unfortunately, I needed quiet time to charge through those videos since it is just beaming back to my colleague days. Luckily, I found a few great websites and YouTube series online. In addition to them, Udacity has four series on Swift Programming as of this blog post.

Lots of great resources out there and hope to go further with it this year!

Links

YouTube

Lynda.com

  • Swift Essential Training
  • iOS Application Development with Swift

After one year…

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Last year, my family and I moved to NY to start a new life in LI. I went to work for St. John’s University and my wife took a part-time job at Island Exotic Veterinary Clinic.

It has been interesting thus far. We are renting our house in VA since it still has negative equity and we cannot refinance. Our current home is 1300 sqft which is small but has great location. We have been to various museums, zoos, aquariums, and local gatherings. The beaches have been a wonderful add to our things to do with the family.

The boys are growing with Ari on the tail end of Kindergarten and Eli completely healed from his surgery in February. Ari is into Legos and Minecraft, started baseball and soccer, and is doing well in school. Eli is walking, babbling, and following is older brother.

Mer continues to reinvigorate her LI roots and is “home”. I am trying to downsize collections, get my games designed/published, and dabble in iOS programming.

Let’s see what is in store for us this year!