Swift Extensions....

Most languages have in-built functions that allow the developer to extract a subset of characters from a given string, for example the left x characters.  The Swift functions are a little convoluted for my liking - I'd like to build a set of helper methods to make this a little nicer to use.  What we will do is work with code to grab the left x characters from a string and develop that idea, ultimately we will have three methods to extract left, right and mid string information.  We will then take these methods and extend the native String datatype itself which should make life nice and easy going forward.

Beginning Swift Course....

Well that's the first of my three planned courses done - a rather pleasant couple of days spent with the guys at the Amsys London office on their Beginning Swift Development course.

Back To The Classroom....

As detailed in my last post I've gone through a fair bit of self-training.  Personally I think I've got off to a fairly solid start - I'm comfortable enough with the language (to a point!) and am able to find my way round Xcode reasonably well.

But this doesn't exactly mean I should stop now!