Thread 1, Day 11 - Monday, November 7, 2022

Agenda

1. Learning Skills Self-Assessment
   • Last week you completed in-person interviews with Mr. Gordon to discuss your achievement to date.
   • You set goals for improvement over the next two weeks to complete this module.
   • Learning skills drive achievement.
     • That is, if you have strong learning skills, the rest often takes care of itself.
   • Please self-evaluate your learning skills for this course to date.
     • When completed, take a photo of your self-assessment and please post it on Spaces in the private portfolio space.
2. Source Control: Quick reference
   • From last week's class, please glue this inside the front cover of your black hardcover notebook.
3. Reference Book: SwiftUI Views Quick Start
   • Many programmers refer to reference books as they learn
   • Mark Moeykens is a talented author of technical reference books, who runs Big Mountain Studio
   • He wrote an outstanding book named SwiftUI Views Quick Start, and generously provides it free of charge
     • To simplify matters, you can directly access a copy of SwiftUI Views Quick Start here
       • To access the file, you need to be logged in to your LCS Google account
       • You may wish to download that PDF file directly to your computer for use in the future
         • To download the PDF file, look for this icon in the top-right corner of your browser window:
           
     • Other books Mark authored are also excellent, but are not provided free of charge
       • These books cover more advanced topics that you may choose to use later this year or in the grade 12 computer science course
4. SwiftUI: Basic Concepts and Terms
   • From the SwiftUI Views Quick Start book, please read through the Basic Concepts section from pages 12 to 20 in the PDF file
     • This will only take you a few minutes
5. SwiftUI: Understanding Mark's HeaderView
   • When you see code it's important that how it works is not a mystery to you
     • Mark includes the same standard layout at the start of all his code examples and screenshots
     • This layout is created from a SwiftUI view named HeaderView
     • To understand how HeaderView works, please review the My Template section from pages 31 to 39 of the Swift UI Views Quick Start
     • This is a good initial example of how to do basic formatting in SwiftUI
     • It is often easier to learn by trying things out as you go.
       • So, you are asked to:
         • create a new project in Xcode, of type iOS App, named HeaderExample
         • then, as you read pages 31 to 39, try typing in the code Mark provides within the body property in his examples
6. Exercise: Experiment with SwiftUI Layouts

   • Option 1: Extend Name Badge

     • Go back to the Name Badge project we started in a prior class.
     • Make the view's visual appearance look like this:
       
     • If you wish, use the complete SwiftUI Views Quick Start book as a reference, or, refer to this PDF that contains a subset of concepts that you will probably find most useful right now
     • You will find this visual reference to fonts available within an iOS app to be useful
       • For example, to get my name to appear with the font shown above, I used this code:
         
       • Here is another good reference for different font weights and variations that are available.

   • Option 2: Freestyle

     • Create a new SwiftUI view and experiment with formatting by referring to SwiftUI Views Quick Start.

To-do items

Before our next class...

• Complete the tasks from today's agenda
• Be sure to share your results, and questions, on Spaces when you are done