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Re: Show HN: Swifty – Learn to code in Swift

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Post by jonsen »

Cyberdog wrote: post #9
jamisteven wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because swift is for apple...?

In practice, nobody is seriously writing Swift code (or any other code) on iOS devices. My meaning was I don't understand why this is an iOS app instead of a Mac app or even a web one (like IBM's Swift sandbox[1]). That being said, I'm kind of impressed someone managed to get an app on the App Store that can do this. I know that Apple loosened its restrictions on code execution on iOS a while back, but as far as I am…

It is a learning tool. Handy to have on a mobile device. Learn while commuting for example.

Re: Show HN: Swifty – Learn to code in Swift

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Post by kazazes »

Cyberdog wrote: post #9
jamisteven wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because swift is for apple...?

In practice, nobody is seriously writing Swift code (or any other code) on iOS devices. My meaning was I don't understand why this is an iOS app instead of a Mac app or even a web one (like IBM's Swift sandbox[1]). That being said, I'm kind of impressed someone managed to get an app on the App Store that can do this. I know that Apple loosened its restrictions on code execution on iOS a while back, but as far as I am…

The lessons and exercises are limited in scope enough that they are entirely static. The work the app needs to do is limited to parsing, stylizing, checking (simple) syntax and matching user input to the task, not executing it. The lessons themselves are no more complex than a programming PPT presentation that looks prettier.

Re: Show HN: Swifty – Learn to code in Swift

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Post by Cyberdog »

kazazes wrote: post #12
Cyberdog wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In practice, nobody is seriously writing Swift code (or any other code) on iOS devices. My meaning was I don't understand why this is an iOS app instead of a Mac app or even a web one (like IBM's Swift sandbox[1]). That being said, I'm kind of impressed someone managed to get an app on the App Store that can do this. I know that Apple loosened its restrictions on code execution on iOS a while back, but as far as I am…

The lessons and exercises are limited in scope enough that they are entirely static. The work the app needs to do is limited to parsing, stylizing, checking (simple) syntax and matching user input to the task, not executing it. The lessons themselves are no more complex than a programming PPT presentation that looks prettier.

All the more reason iOS is a bizarre platform for this, then.

Re: Show HN: Swifty – Learn to code in Swift

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Post by nilliams »

Cyberdog wrote: post #14
kazazes wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The lessons and exercises are limited in scope enough that they are entirely static. The work the app needs to do is limited to parsing, stylizing, checking (simple) syntax and matching user input to the task, not executing it. The lessons themselves are no more complex than a programming PPT presentation that looks prettier.

All the more reason iOS is a bizarre platform for this, then.

What's bizarre about it? Apple developers tend to own other Apple devices and are likely to want to learn Swift on the go.

Re: Show HN: Swifty – Learn to code in Swift

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Post by cballard »

Cyberdog wrote: post #2

1. Why the hell is this an iOS app? 2. How the hell is this an iOS app?

Why is this downvoted so heavily? Seriously, how is this implemented? I don't think Emscripten works with Swift yet, and even if it did, there hasn't been enough time since the open source release to implement an entire app.

Re: Show HN: Swifty – Learn to code in Swift

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Post by Terribledactyl »

Cyberdog wrote: post #2

1. Why the hell is this an iOS app? 2. How the hell is this an iOS app?

1) It's kind fun, like an interactive text book.

2) Not actually running any (of your) code, or coding really. Tap this to fill in a string, or to select an operator from a few approved.

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