Time to take a moment to recap week three in coding my first app. Unfortunately, I did not make much time for coding this week so this update will be light. That being said, let’s get started.
Week two of coding is done. This past week was brutally frustrating as I tried to work my way through Swift’s Codable type. After 15 hours of Google searches, Swift Playgrounds, and countless rewrites of the same code; I finally figured out how to take my JSON response and turn it into useable information.
I finally finished my Udemy course at the end of December. After looking online and talking to people, it seems that the next natural progression in this learning thing is to try and make my own app from scratch. So it’s officially time to kick off the training wheels and the comfort of watching an instructor, and see how much more I have to learn on my own.
From the start of this, I decided that if I am going to build an app, it’s got to be something good enough to be published on the App Store. I figured that this goal would keep me up to high standards of quality, and I would get to experience the full life cycle of developing an app. So… what to build?