Swift articles is a new category of blog posts that will show off cool Swift articles! It will be a mixture of articles that I have found as well as some of my past blog posts! I will showcase articles and resources for all levels of Swift programmers and designers!
If anyone has any other articles that they enjoy or would like to share throw them in the comments below!
How to Build a Sprite Game in Swift
Source: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/11/how-to-build-a-spritekit-game-in-swift-3-part-1/
This is a really cool tutorial that simply shows you how to build a quick sprite game in Swift! I would consider this tutorial to be a little more on the intermediate level in terms of an understanding of the Swift language. It assumes basic knowledge of the language but there is no required experience in game development!
Swift Syntax Cheat Codes
Source: https://medium.com/swift-programming/swift-syntax-cheat-codes-9ce4ab4bc82e#.n7fx3qgdm
One of the more interesting aspects of Swift is that is has a lot of interesting and sometimes weird syntax shortcuts that come from its type inference. To put it simply, you can cut out a lot of syntax from Swift because the language can infer different pieces of type information. This is just a cool article showcasing all of the different syntax jargon in Swift.
Swift Algorithm Club
Source: https://github.com/raywenderlich/swift-algorithm-club
This one is very interesting. Swift algorithm club is an open source project that tries to implement popular algorithms in Swift! Anyone can contribute and it is just fun to look through all of the different algorithms and how they are implemented in Swift
Creating a Firebase Data Model
Interested in getting started with Firebase? This is an introductory tutorial that will teach you how to create a Data Model overlaying the Firebase database so you can easily put data into Firebase just by calling the modal’s methods! The data modal will be handy to keep around for all of the Firebase apps you create in the future!’
iOS Design Guidelines
Source: http://ivomynttinen.com/blog/ios-design-guidelines
This is a really useful article that goes over all of the design principles for designing iOS apps. I think this is something typically looked over by developers. Design should be 70% of the app since it will be what directly influences the user. User’s typically prefer well designed apps over poorly designed apps with lots of functionality!
