If you have interviewed at any point recently, then you might have come across the FizzBuzz problem. No, it is not to do with long term storage of your open cola bottle. It is based on a childhood game (I knew of a variant, not FizzBuzz) the idea is simple, you stand in a circle […]
You must have at some stage attempted to learn about algorithms and searched for puzzles to write algorithms for to solve. There are three interesting puzzles laid out by Spotify at https://labs.spotify.com/puzzles/. We shall have a look at solving those using Swift
Swift is gaining popularity with Developers and as companies are considering Swift for their projects. Over a period since the publication of my Swift book (at Swift v1.2) there are many that keep up to date with the new features in Swift and there are those that are now considering the move to Swift or […]
How do you convert Binary String to it’s Integer Value? There are many approaches to convert Binary strings to Integers. One approach could be to iterate through all of the characters in the string and add the value of 2 raised to the power of the index.
Swift is quite interesting and is changing the way you would develop in the future. For this article, let’s look at using enums in an interesting manner.
In this article we are going to make a swift app for the Mac OSX. This will have no window but instead have a menu item that would be used for interacting with the application. This application shall also read a settings and alter the icon and menu according to the status of that setting
In an earlier article, we discussed the possibility of adding a cout like functionality in Swift as seen in C++ (https://swift.oz-apps.com/2015/04/using-a-cout/). There were a couple of impediments that prevented the full functionality of our cout function. Let us revisit that and add chaining
This is work in progress and there are somethings that Swift cannot do where as Lua excels with them. Since everything in a Lua table is a reference or a pointer, you can recursively add table to refer to subtables. You could also store functions in the tables and invoke them based on the key. […]
Talking to a couple of developers over various mediums about Swift has had mixed results. However one thing that came up again and again was that it is a little confusing. While confusing in the literal sense would not be the correct word. So let me elaborate the issue first.
If you have worked with C++, you might be well aware of the cout function, it is one of the most commonly used functions with C++. That is simply because you can just use it so // cout << “Hello World” and it prints Hello World to the console. Well, using the println(“Hello World”) is […]
