Before I forget… Discoveries in Swift and iOS development! By Craig Grummitt

Optionals in Swift explained – with a cat in a box!

Posted on March 5, 2019 by craiggrummitt — Leave a comment

If you’ve come to Swift from a language that doesn’t use optionals, you might find the concept a little strange and the syntax unfamiliar at first. Sometimes it helps to learn the unfamiliar with something familiar – in my lightning tour…

Swift – a history of the inspiration for ‘new’ concepts!

Posted on October 31, 2014 by craiggrummitt — Leave a comment

In studying Swift initially, I was quite interested to read about concepts that I wasn’t familiar with, and curious to know if these were brand new concepts invented by excited Apple engineers, or if they were inspired from other other languages.…

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Optionals in Swift explained – with a cat in a box!

Swift – a history of the inspiration for ‘new’ concepts!