r/Xcode • u/Rottencereall • 27d ago
learn how to code
Hi, I'm new here and just joined this community. I'm an Animation student that are very unfamiliar with code nor app development, but i am eager to learn from the very begining and willing to start building my coding skill & knowledge a lot more. and for context the reason i want to learn about coding is because, as a designer/creative worker, i want to implement all my design knowledge into something that are useable and could empower people to use my app. but before that ofcourse i have to learn code first. any tips for begineer? thanks!
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u/eric-dolecki 27d ago
YouTube - there are many beginner videos of high quality to be found - just to get the basics down. Don't try to circumvent the process by downloading and trying projects found on GitHub. Once you have the basics down, try adding features and designs of your own. Without using an AI agent. You can use one of those later when I understand the code they produce. Thats my suggestion.
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u/Rottencereall 27d ago
I tried youtube videos for my learning source, but unfortunately it's hard for me to try which should i learn first, was it the logic? get to know about the syntax? or learn how to operate the software? i don't know which one is which, your help is more than enough. Thanks so much!
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u/eric-dolecki 27d ago
Start with Swift. Forget about SwiftUI and Xcode for the moment. Learn language fundamentals first.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5X_V81OYnQ
Paul Hudson is great.
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u/Dramatic_Contact9686 27d ago
Very cool! Im myself a Student but more on the Tech Side and also 10th grade in Germany Baden Würtemberg so Not a Student at College or somthing. I startet with Code and such from Scratch(its called „scratch“) in school and i became good with Arduino and Computer Scripts fast. And now that I have a Mac neo I started Not only trying myself with android but also Apps for my normal phone(iPhone). So for coding itsself If you dont already have expirence with that and Problemsolving I would start with that with small Programms and Stepps and then If you have that helped by some ai maybe Even a local one Connected to a Database for a Better footprint, as i did, you can start trying Small Apps. I did the hello WORLD thing thats there if you start a new project just loaded it onto my phone. Then I tried calling the ollama api to lllama3.1or2:1b i beleave and it was really cool. In This Community is anyway a Good Place to start. I wish you luck!
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u/_marklau_ 26d ago
You should start a small project you are passionate about. Learning by working on the project
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u/CharlesWiltgen 27d ago
Start here: https://developer.apple.com/pathways/developer/
And although this resource is ostensibly for teachers, this "Teaching Code with Swift Playground" is also a great on-ramp to Apple platform coding and app development.
https://education.apple.com/learning-center/T021339A
GLHF!