Code! Learn Swift Version

This app makes learning coding fun! There are questions that take you step by step through the actual routine of coding, examples, and video tutorials throughout the whole thing. It isn't made super easy and you are encouraged to think through the problems rather than just giving you the answers. This helps you to remember the old stuff before moving on to new steps. This is a well made app and the developer obviously put a lot of thought into this. Update 2/4/17: Been through several more lessons now. Still a great app! Just one small issue makes me almost take down a star. This is the second time I've been forced into reviewing the app to keep going. I think one review should be enough. I'm going to leave it at 5 but if I have to review again to keep going it's probably going down a star. Update 2/4/17: only a few lessons later and being forced to review again. Review loses one star due to the repeated loop of forced reviews. Have to entirely close down the app and go back in even seconds after leaving a review. This is ridiculous!

The app is pretty decent and breaks down the fundamentals fairly well. One annoying thing is the sensitivity when it comes to how exact your answers are. You don’t need a period in a string or need to capitalize anything. The app makes you type exactly what they tell you, which can be frustrating considering all the points I got stuck weren’t because of a coding structure mistake or anything of the sort it was because of a missing space or something minor like a period. The real kicker is when you complete the very first basic lesson and they start charging you for every other lesson. Honestly I thought I found a free nifty tool to get a grasp on Swift coding but the prices are a bit hefty for my liking. Why would anyone buy an individual lesson? If you’re serious about learning you’re obviously going to want to know it all, not just a specific piece which is essentially useless without the rest. You can buy all lessons for $10 USD, or buying each individual lesson will rack up to around $47 - $48 USD. I’m sure this app is fine if you have the money to put into it, but I’d rather just look online for free and figure it out myself. At least the app doesn’t have any ads which is a plus but I’m just gonna uninstall and figure it out a different way. If you have the money, go for the $10 pack and if not, this isn’t the app for you.

I decided to use this app because of the incredible amount of reviews that the app had, 4K at the time of this review, and it’s high rating. Thinking this must be a good indication of its quality. Interestingly this number is most likely attributed to the app requiring you to rate it after completing the first lesson in the course, otherwise you must pay for the app. It’s a very clever way of getting reviews for your product and I commend the marketing teams use of strategy. So it seems that the 4K in reviews is mostly to do with the people like me who just want free stuff! 😊 Never the less the app is straightforward and intuitive and I like the user friendly environment that is used to help teach you swift. Maybe I’ll come back and write an update to this once I’ve completed all the lessons to make sure all these reviews don’t just consist of people who have completed just the first lesson.

I told the developer I’d rate this app with a glowing 5 stars after iOS 12 released, so now here I am! A lot of the complaints I have seen from other reviews is that you have to spend $10 to unlock the rest of the lessons, but this is 100% worth it in my opinion. I’ve made it to chapter 8, and so far everything has been clear and concise. I’ve struggled with trying to learn other languages in the past, but the way this app is set up there’s usually a very clear reason as to why things are the way they are. Each lesson even has hints and a video included that can help A LOT if you don’t understand something. Most of the time it isn’t necessary to use these, but they help a lot when you do need to use them! When I finally encountered a problem I couldn’t solve, I emailed the developer asking for help and they got back to me quite quickly, responding fast until my problem was solved. They were completely understanding, patient, and polite. This app is awesome at teaching Swift and the developer genuinely seems to want to teach people Swift. This app has inspired me to continue my journey learning Swift, and I thank the developer for creating an awesome app! This is one of the best $10 I have spent.

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I’m using this on an iPad Pro and on the very first exercise hit a wall. When typing a double-quote it is entered as “curly” quotes rather than the straight “inch mark” quotes, and the app doesn’t recognize them as correct. I could not find a way to enter straight quotes, so had to copy one from a website, then paste it *every time* quotes are needed (frequently). This is frustrating and *very* unnecessary. The app should automatically convert them. If not for that bug this would be a 5 star app. The content starts at a very basic level, but it’s a good way to review after having not used Swift for quite some time. I plan to purchase the remaining chapters. $5 is on the high end for the amount of content, but seems fair enough. One other annoyance is that the “Run” and “Next” buttons appear underneath the type-ahead bar that displays automatically when a Bluetooth keyboard is used, which requires an extra tap after every text entry.