Thread 2, Day 3 - Friday, January 12, 2024

Agenda

1. Discussion: Gradients
   • A brief look at how to create interesting gradients.
   Tip

   Here is the video from our discussion of this topic in class today – useful for review, or if you were absent.

2. Activity: Optionals
   • Understand how the Swift programming language handles cases where a value may not exist for a variable or constant.
3. Recap: Develop in Swift Tutorials
   • A further opportunity to consolidate concepts learned in module 1, and to learn a few new ways to write apps using the features of Xcode.
   • Chapters 1, 2, and 3 are all good choices to try this week.
     Note

     Mr. Gordon was an unpaid technical reviewer for these tutorials; they were authored by a team at Apple.

Things to do before our next class

• Be certain to complete at least task #2, asking questions of Mr. Gordon as needed.
• Get started on task #3 to further your understanding.