Day 20-Projects Week

     

0730-I’m starting work on the Gwent Deck manager today. It’ll be the last full day to work on projects so I’ll have to get as much done as possible. 0900-We had our projects mini-scrum again. It looks like all the groups are coming along nicely. I’m looking forward to seeing what each has to present tomorrow. 1100-Algorithms time. Today we covered graphs, as well as three different ways that they can be implemented.

Day 19-Projects Week

     

0730-Arrived early to get as much headway with Alamofire and SwiftyJSON as possible and… it doesn’t compile. xCode tells me there are now over 800 errors with the two pods. Apparently both of the libraries are still written in Swift 2. At some point Swift tried to update them to Swift 3 and it broke everything. 0900-After fighting it for over an hour I gave up. Everyone did their mini-scrum with David and then we started working on our projects again.

Day 18-Projects Week

     

0745-David’s back. He provides a some help with a CoreData problem that I was having. Apparently the developers of Swift 3 and xCode implemented the Swift 2 to Swift 3 migration in such a way that Swift 2 CoreData models were kept in their original Swift 2 format while the rest of the project’s syntax was changed to Swift 3. This was probably done to maintain backwards compatibility with existing app databases that clients were currently using.

Day 17-Projects Week

     

Timeline: 0745-I applied to some jobs on Saturday. It usually takes a couple weeks for responses to percolate, so I figure it’s a good time to get cracking. 0900-David’s out sick, so Michael goes through the basics of project week and provides some initial guidance to the groups on their ideas. 1100-For algorithms we cover the trie data structure and implement .insert and .first methods. 1900-I’ve got the basic interface for my Gwent game built.

Day 16-Black Belt Test

     

Timeline: 0730-Arrived early to try and complete the most challenging aspects of the assignment. Evan (one of the other classmates) has already given most of the class a link to a good tutorial on searchBar implementation. In exchange I gave a whiteboard presentation on implementing button press responses from a button within a custom cell (which is less than trivial because that button has no knowledge of the CoreData object that it’s cell represents).