Monty Harper articles - 23 total
Notes on Notes
July 29, 2024 at 8:29 AM Do you take notes while you’re working on a personal coding project? I do,...
10 Ideas For Getting Un-Stuck
I'm Well and Truly Stuck! I'm trying to embrace the "learning in public" ideal here on...
Making a New Item in SwiftData go Directly to Edit View, or "How to Get Things Exactly Backwards"
Please note that while I do use some Swift vocabulary in this article, and while it may be helpful to...
A Song For StarWars Day
To celebrate StarWars day, I thought I'd share this song I wrote about my favorite little green...
What Good Is a Mobile App?
Serious question... What tasks are mobile apps uniquely good at accomplishing? Why would an...
Clear Vision, Not So Clear (or.. The User Is Me)
Weekly Updates? I began on DEV with the intention to "learn in public," but I tend to want...
SwiftUI - Row of Buttons Acting As One
What I thought was a bug, turned out to be a feature! Thanks to Paul Hudson at Hacking...
How to Refactor Spaghetti Code - One Bite at a Time!
This week, I’ve been learning things the hard way! I’m refactoring my calendar app, partly because...
#DEVResolutions2024
I have one big goal this year: find a remote entry-level iOS developer job! Breaking it down, I...
MarqueeView - Smoothly Scrolling Text in an Infinite Loop Using SwiftUI
What You'll Find Here Yes, I will share the code. If that's all you're after, you can...
Non-Linear Thinking Part 2 - A Mysterious Doouubbllee.
As I refine my app in preparation for turning it in, I continue to struggle with the non-linear...
Non-Linear Thinking, part 1
Swift is object-oriented! I was weened long ago on BASIC (Don’t look that up or you may...
Child Views Should Be Seen and Not Heard
(Illustration by DALL-E 2) No, I'm not endorsing misguided Victorian-era platitudes about...
When Persistence Turns Pernicious
Stick with it! Be persistent! Keep after it! Learning to code means facing down challenge after...
To Singleton or Not To Singleton??
So I'm thinking about using a singleton to store the user preferences for the app I'm working on. As...
useClosure() {work, backwards in returnValuesAsInput (backwards, work)}
In my previous post, I wrote about callbacks in Swift, or more specifically using a completion...
Learning Through Abstraction
Or, How College Algebra Helped Me Understand Networking Callbacks Udacity’s iOS...
That Magical First-Time Feeling of Coding Your Own Thing!
Summer's Gone! I'm back to teaching algebra full-time. So I need to get more disciplined...
Hello 100 - glad to be in your feed!
Here's a meme of myself I made with my own "Mememe 2.0" app, Udacity's third assigned project in the...
5 Lessons Gleaned and Memed from Making My 2nd iOS App
Huzzah! I just turned in my second major assignment in the Udacity iOS Developer nanodegree program....
Do You Need the Latest Computer / Software to Learn Programming?
Spoiler alert, the answer is no. But for a moment, I was thrown. I actually told my wife...
Live-Blogging: Building My First From-Scratch iOS App
Cool! I just completed my first "from scratch" iOS app, and it works! I live-blogged my way through...
From Children's Musician to iOS Dev - Late in Life Career Change?
Hello Dev, I'm new here. This is my story... I teach college algebra. It’s a gig I took as a...