How To Make an App - Ep 9 - Building Blocks of Swift Programming

How To Make iPhone Apps with NO Programming Experience!
Lesson 9: Building Blocks of Swift Programming
This lesson goes through the basic building blocks of Swift programming. Classes and objects, methods and properties.

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[YAlsadah]

Thank you! I've been struggling to learn all these classes etc in my attempts to learn other languages but most people fail to give simple explanations to these terms and just dive in. It's like someone asking you to eat without teaching you what food is and whats the point of eating. After watching this video I think I've got an 80% understanding of these concepts, and probably I'll fully understand when we dive in. Thanks!

[Sayin]

Damn Chris! You're not only great at making these tutorials but you're also very responsive and helpful in ALL the comments that I've come across thus far - you're truly a great instructor who cares about helping others learn.
Thank you Chris 👍

[VQLT]

thanks Chris, I feel like I've come so far in my learning-even if it's only ep9! much love brother!

[jous]

Great videos Chris! THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALL THESE AWESOME TUTORIALS!

[younggunsstudio]

Episode 8 Me: OMG I'M DOING IT
Episode 9 Me: fuck.

[fabianhaglund]

Been looking for this kind of video for a while. Thanks!

[joyfullittlethings]

Hi Chris, thank you for the video. I think you might want to describe the classes and methods using better metaphors for beginners. For example thinking class as Walmart, it has different department as methods or properties, people as objects to buy dif clothes or food for themselves lol. You sure can think of a better one. After all I am very happy to learn coding with you.

[richiethebuilder]

Thanks Chris!

Does it matter when we define the method? It looks like you defined the method before calling it

[hbof]

Amazing vids. This guys vids are so damn good, very articulated.

[richtowns]

Excellent descriptions. Good clear examples. Thanks!

[Ahmed-lmli]

nice video! I used to have difficulty understanding classes, object and init until I was learning Python online in Udacity, and it even looks similar how they are written.

[lecoexpands]

Thank you Chris!. Thank you a ton for your dedication, and for sharing.
Your tutorials are awesome!

[IvanovaElena]

thank you so much for these tutorials!

[ufozencom]

at 6:07 when you say, when you create a new person, the print statement is run... but it isn't run at all... what happened?

[carlosfernandez]

first time watched the Ep 9 "wow i m dead" ; second time watched " got class mean" ; after many times watched i can say now " understood, let s keep learning, next Ep" thanks Chris really love this tutorials, i go slow but i go, step by step but always forward, thanks

[ufozencom]

and at 7:55 when you write b.saycheese() - it still doesn't print out "say cheese" - why?

[LeaWhite]

I woke up this morning with the idea for an app and decided to try to learn how to develop it myself. I've watched and worked along with the first 8 videos and found it fun and easy to understand... and then video 9 came along and suddenly I feel like I'm watching something in another language. I really like the way everything is explained in these videos but does anyone know of another video with a different explanation that I might be able to understand? Coding isn't sinking into my thick skull. Thanks :)

[mattetoso]

Why when i was typing the same things you was about the classes, the playground run the code twice and showed me two times "new person initialized"?

[KaPzArts]

whenever I write a code (ex. var b = person()) - it doesn't show the text to the right like it does with you. what to do?? help plz

[JanJaoNov]

Hi Chris, how do I zoom in to my code? The font is too small on my 15" laptop. Thanks!