Swift iOS programming for kids : unleash your child's developer potential through fun projects and help them learn how to create iOS apps in Swift / Steffen D. Sommer, Jim Campagno.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sommer, Steffen D., author.

Campagno, Jim, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Swift (Computer program language)--Juvenile literature.

Swift (Computer program language).

Application software--Development--Juvenile literature.

Application software.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 pages) : color illustrations, photographs

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, London ; Mumbai, [India] : Packt Publishing, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

D. Sommer Steffen: Since Swift was announced at WWDC, Steffen D. Sommer has had a passionate interest in the programming language. He's currently working as a lead Vapor developer at a company called Nodes in Copenhagen, where he focuses on developing backend systems using Swift. In his spare time, he helps organize the local iOS meet up, visits iOS conferences around the world, and explores the different aspects of and use cases for Swift, such as putting Swift on the server and doing functional programming in Swift. You can also find him contributing to open source projects on GitHub or blogging on his personal website. Campagno Jim: Jim Campagno is an iOS developer and teacher living in New York City. He's currently working as an iOS instructor at the Flatiron School, helping beginners of Swift and iOS become iOS developers. Jim has a deep desire and high level of creativity that he brings to teaching. He created the Swift online course offered at Flatiron School, which includes in-depth readings along with test-driven labs, challenging the student to write code in Swift. Jim also runs an active YouTube channel, putting out in-depth content and helping students understand everything in iOS and Swiftfrom the basics to complex topics. Most importantly, Jim ensures that the content he creates is accessible, fun, and interactive. He enjoys putting together a story behind every topic to make it more enjoyable for the reader.

Summary:

Unleash your child's developer potential through fun projects and help them learn how to create iOS apps in Swift About This Book Children can express their creativity while learning through interactive Swift Playgrounds Empower children to think critically about problems Learning programming basics can help children gain confidence in problem solving Help children put their imagination into action building their first iOS app Who This Book Is For Children who are curious about the technology we use in our daily lives and want to know how it works can use this book to learn about programming and building their first iOS app. No prior programming experience is necessary. What You Will Learn Basic programming and coding fundamentals Write code using the fun and interactive Swift Playgrounds app Make animations, including creating your own starry night Utilise functions by making pizza in code Create an interactive toy bin Learn how to use control flow statements to further enhance your toy bin Build a simple movie night app working with tableviews and arrays In Detail 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. Style and approach This is a project-based guide with an engaging tone that uses a visually rich format. It explains the concepts in clear language and uses lots of pictures, cartoons, and examples. There is a set of practical exercises to be completed.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: What is Programming?

The Swift programming language

Why is programming important?

What you will learn from this book

Summary

Chapter 2: Getting Set Up

Xcode

Downloading Xcode

Playground

Chapter 3: Say Hello

What is a console application?

Setting up our first Xcode playground

Creating the playground

Saving our playground

Removing what is unnecessary

A quick look at the Xcode interface

Creating our program

A quick look at Xcode errors

Xcode and autocompletion

Chapter 4: Favorite Things

Variables and constants

Variables

Constants

Chapter 5: Factories

String and Int

Double

Chapter 6: Making Pizza

How the iPhone runs our program

A simple program without functions

What is a function?

A function can receive some input

A function can be pure

A function can return something

A look at functions in Swift

Making our own function

Chapter 7: Toy Bin

Collection types

Array

Dictionary

Optionals

Chapter 8: Smarter Toy Bin

Buttercup

Learning the for-in loop

Conditionals

Learning for-loops and if-statements

Append method

Find the buttercup

Chapter 9: Making Some Friends

OOP

Modeling real-world objects

Modeling a mug

Modeling a person

Our first class

Instance properties

Instance methods

Making objects interact with each other

Adding more classes to the mix

Chapter 10: Pokémon Battle

Pokémon type

Initializer syntax

Functions and types

Charizard versus pikachu

Hug function

Chapter 11: Simon Says

GUI

Laying out a view.

Setting up a new iOS project

Xcode's Interface Builder and storyboards

Simon says

Designing the interface

Chapter 12: Starry Night

A deep dive into UI in iOS

The view hierarchy

Frames and bounds

Auto Layout

The UIViewController life cycle

Starry Night

Designing the UI

Adding functionality to our interface

Chapter 13: Space Pizza Delivery

Space Pizza

Enumerations

Switch statement

Planet

Type property

Space junk

Pizza service

Property observers

Storyboard and view controller

Hooking everything up

Space junk buttons

Updating the cost

Chapter 14: Movie Night - iOS App

How to create a list

The data source

The delegate

UITableViewController

Our final application: Movie Night

The interface

Displaying items in our list

Dynamically adding items to our list

Deleting items from our list

Persisting our movies

Deploying our application to our iPhone

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 11, 2017).

ISBN:

9781787125650

1787125653

OCLC:

982197711