Hacking with macOS – Build A Desktop App with Swift

The Hacking with macOS tutorial series is designed to make it easy for beginners to get started coding for macOS

What you will learn

Place your own amazing desktop apps into the hands of thousands of people through the Mac App Store

Become completely proficient with Swift 3 and macOS app development

Description

This course is produced from the “Hacking with macOS” series of tutorials, which are written and authored by the award winning Swift programmer, Paul Hudson, and these videos were made with his permission and support. You can always be guaranteed you’re learning the latest and greatest Apple technologies in the Hacking with Swift tutorials. Here you learn smart, powerful, and expressive Swift 3, the way it was meant to be written. You learn while you make real-world desktop apps, which means you get to apply your new skills immediately and see them work in context. Hacking with Swift is one of the most popular Swift tutorial series online, which uses an approach that teaches you Swift programming incredibly quickly, and you end up with a huge library of finished projects that are yours to develop further, or ship to the Mac App Store. Paul has received high praise from the creator of the Swift language, Chris Lattner, for his outstanding method of teaching, and series of Swift tutorials. And working together with iOS developer Steve DeStefano, the Hacking with Swift series of programming training videos are simply the fastest way to learn how to code in the Apple eco-system.

Check out all of Paul Hudson’s Swift tutorials and books at HackingWithSwift – from beginner to pro, Paul will teach you to write Swift code in very little time.

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English

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Content

Paul Hudson and Hacking With macOS – Tour of the HackingWithSwift.com site

Introductions – Course outline

Inro to Hacking with macOS – Notes for iOS devs – More then one way to do it

Intro to hacking with macOS part 1 – Notes for iOS developers

Intro to hacking with macOS part 2 – There Is More Than One Way To Do It

Xcode walk through

Xcode 8 walk through

The Swift 3 Language

Variables – Part 1 – Data types – Type annotation – Type inference

Variables – Part 2 – Data Types – Type Annotation – Type Inference continued

Operators – Part 1 – Unary, Binary, Ternary, Assignment, and Remainder operators

Operators – Part 2 – Increment, Decrement, Minus Unary, Compound Assignment

Operators – Part 3 – Range, and Logical operators

Optionals

Structs

Computed properties

Property Observers

Extensions

Protocols Part 1 – Syntax and declaring – Adding functions

Protocols Part 2 – Adding properties -Delegation – Static keyword

Enums Part 1 – Raw values – Associated values

Enums Part 2 – Implicitly assigned raw values

Enums Part 3 – Initializing – recursive enums

Generics Part 1

Generics Part 2

Type Casting – Part 1 – The “as” and “is” operators

Type Casting – Part 2 – Using AnyObject and Any

Nested Types

Tuples part 1 – Using and accessing values

Tuples part 2 – Using them with functions and optionals

Closures Part 1 – Syntax and Optimizations

Closures Part 2 – Trailing Closures

Closures Part 3 – Capturing Values

Control Flow

if statement – else if – nested if’s

Switch

for in loop

while and repeat while loops

Collections

Arrays part 1 – Declaring and initialiizing an array

Arrays part 2 – Accessing and modifying

Arrays part 3 – More of accessing and modifying

Dictionaries – Part 1

Dictionaries – part 2

Sets Part 1 – Declaring and initializing sets

Sets Part 2 – Accessing and modifying sets

Functions

Functions – Part 1 – Declaring – Syntax – Return

Functions Part 2 – Working with functions

Functions Part 3 – Working with more functions

Functions Part 4 – Nested Functions

Strings

Strings Part 1 – Literals – mutability – interpolation – characters

Strings Part 2 – Accessing and modifying strings

Strings Part 3 – Comparing strings

Strings Part 4 – Even more of accessing and modifying strings

Classes – Properties – inits – Subclassing

Classes – initializers – properties

Subclassing Part 1

Subclassing Part 2

Whats New in Swift 3.0

Part 1 – Depreciations – Method and Parameter names – Omit needless words

Part 2 – Lowercase enums and properties – Foundation Framework namings

Part 3 – Importing C Funcs – Dispatch – KVO – Verbs and Nouns

Project 1 – Storm Viewer

Intro – Storm viewer

Part 1 – Setting up – splitting a window in two

Part 2 – Adding custom controllers

Part 3 – Designing our interface

Part 4 – Introducing some outlets

Part 5 – Showing some table rows

Part 6 – Loading our images

Part 7 – Responding to table selection

Part 8 – Finishing touches

Project 2 – Cows and Bulls

Intro – Cows and Bulls

Part 1 – Setting up – designing our user interface

Part 2 – Filling in the table view

Part 3 – Setting up the game

Part 4 – Marking guesses

Project 3 – Social Media

Intro – Social Media

Part 1 – Setting up – subclassing NSSplitViewController

Part 2 – Creating a toolBar – wrapup

Project 4 – Grid Browser

Project 4 Intro

Part 1 – Setting up – Starting with the toolbar

Part 2 – Layout with stack views

Part 3 – App Transport Security

Part 4 – Creating and destroying web views

Part 5 – Whats selected?

Part 6 – Handling navigation

Part 7 – Adding Touch Bar controls

Part 8 – Adding even more Touch Bar controls

Project 5 – Capital Cities

Project 5 Intro

Part 1 – Setting up – creating a mapView

Part 2 – Dropping pins

Part 3 – Keeping score

Project 6 – Auto Layout

Project 6 – Intro

Part 1 – Visual Format Language (VFL)

Part 2 – Auto Layout Anchors

Part 3 – Stack views

Part 4 – Grid views

Project 7 – Photo Memories

Project 7 – Intro

Part 1 – Setting up – Designing with collection views

Part 2 – Selecting items

Part 3 – Loading images from disk

Part 4 – Importing files

Part 5 – Re-arranging photos

Part 6 – Deleting key presses with keyUp

Part 7 – Optional content if you want to continue – Core Animation

Part 8 – Making a video composition

Project 8 – Odd One Out

Project 8 – Intro

Part 1 – Setting up – Creating a grid of buttons

Part 2 – Generating layouts

Part 3 – Click to win

Part 4 – Game over

Part 5 – Finishing touches

Project 9 – GCD

Project 9 Intro

Part 1 – Performing selectors in background – Running on different threads

Part 2 – Running delayed code – Concurrent execution

Project 10 – WeatherBar

Project 10 – Intro

Part 1 – Setting up – The art of nothingness

Part 2 – Creating a settings screen

Part 3 – Saving and loading settings

Part 4 – Parsing JSON

Part 5 – Updating the User Interface

Part 6 – Creating more menu items

Project 11 – Bubble Trouble

Project 11 – Intro

Part 1 – Setting up – Cleaning up the Xcode template

Part 2 – Bubbles bubbles everywhere

Part 3 – Setting the universe in motion

Part 4 – Adding some difficulty

Part 5 – Gotta pop em all

Project 12 – Animations

Project 12 Intro

Part 1 – Setting up – Constructing a test environment

Part 2 – Basic animator proxy use

Part 3 – Animating layers

Part 4 – Advanced layer animation

Project 13 – Screenable

Project 13 Intro

Part 1 – Designing the user interface

Part 2 – Designing the user interface continued

Part 3 – Populating the popup buttons

Part 4 – Drawing images and gradients

Part 5 – Rendering the caption

Part 6 – Importing a screenshot

Part 7 – Exporting the finished product

Part 8 – NSDocument and NSCoding

Part 9 – NSDocument and NSCoding continued

Project 14 – Shooting Gallery

Project 14 Intro

Part 1 – Setting up – Creating the game world

Part 2 – Creating a custom node

Part 3 – Click click bang

Part 4 – Adding some polish

Project 15 – NSUndoManager

Project 15 Intro

Part 1 – Setting up – Reversible changes

Part 2 – Doubling up methods

Project 16 – Bookworm

Project 16 Intro

Part 1 – Set up for success

Part 2 – Manipulating arrays with NSArrayController

Part 3 – Binding everything

Part 4 – Creating an emoji formatter

Part 5 – Presenting a credits screen

Project 17 – Match Three

Project 17 Intro

Part 1 – Setting up – A grid of balls

Part 2 – Matching colors

Part 3 – Making room for more

Part 4 – Tracking score

Part 5 – A puff of smoke

Project 18 – Bindings

Project 18 Intro

Part 1 – KVC and KVO

Part 2 – The imperial march

Part 3 – Property observers and KVO

Part 4 – Dependent properties and formatters

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