For today’s activity, I started it in the afternoon after a long day. I spent too much time looking up keyboard short cuts to get the Xcode preview to start (command+option+p).

Here are some good links.

• Git Tower Xcode cheat sheet PDF
• Swift Education PDF
• Mobidev talk Website and Videos
• Better Programming (Medium site)

After I got that out of my system, I was able to start focusing on the task at hand.

Yes, there will be a fair chunk of practice here, and yes, hopefully this will be an easy project for you. But that shouldn’t stop you from tackling it with gusto – give it your best shot!

After spending 5 minutes with that, I got even more in the weeds and made a video to show something cool with the mini map in Xcode.

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Then I settled in and made a really cool app with Paul. It’s exciting to see how all the little pieces come together to make something a lot more.

I think this is a great take away. Learning that these things can be broken into smaller pieces and accomplished.

A lot of people have mixed feelings about Monday’s. For me, I look at them with gratitude that I’m still employed. After this last weekend, I’m just happy that I don’t have to think about that disaster called a super bowl and can get back to “Hacking with Swift”!

Imagine my surprise to see this as the first line of today’s activity!

It’s time for another new project, and this is actually the last easy project we have on this course – after this the difficulty level ramps up a little as we tackle bigger apps, so enjoy this while it lasts!

The last couple of projects have really started to dive into some of the frameworks and just hope that I’ve given myslef enough time to really let the lessons stick in my brain as I move forward.

This lesson was kind of fun in that it reminded me that Swift and SwiftUI still takes a lot of utilities from the UIKit. On the shoulders of giants, indeed.