Iām building an expense tracker app, and live streaming the whole process! This is a blog series that will be like a written form of each livestream. I won’t be going into the technical details of everything but instead summarizing the livestream. First Livestream The first livestream was an introduction to what the app is […]
Author: Mikaela Caron
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Creating a Butcher Block Desk Top
When I bought my sit / stand desk, I decided to forgo buying a desktop and made my own. I’ve always liked woodworking and making my own meant that I can pick any color and make it whatever size/shape that I wanted. I spent about 40 hours total and 11 days making a butcher block […]
What the func? Functions!! They do exactly what you tell them to do. They are the building blocks for modern day applications. If you try to make an app without using a function, good luck. How do we make functions clean? Keep Them Small According to “Uncle Bob” he says that function should rarely ever […]
Maintaining an open-source project is difficult š I knew this wasn’t a cake walk, but it did require more attention than I thought it would. Here’s a list of tips and other advice I’d recommend to anyone who’s going to be a maintainer for the first time during Hacktoberfest. Write a Great README A README.md […]
Say what you mean, and mean what you say. Chapter 2 is all about naming! Names of variables, functions, classes, objects, protocols (interfaces), everything! Why is naming so important? Everything in software has a name, from the iterator variable in a for loop to the package you’re importing into your project. The name tells you […]
What is Clean Code?
Why Tracking job applications on different platforms and for different companies almost always ends in using a spreadsheet. I wanted to have a simple way to track job applications and try using SQLite in an application. Sketch First I created a rough design of what the app could look like, using Sketch. I brainstormed what […]
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Should I learn UIKit or SwiftUI?
Should you learn UIKit for SwiftUI in 2020?
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Hello World!
My first post.