Laurence Stone

Building apps for use in my "Math for Electricians" and "Math for Engineering Tech" courses. Smallish for now, without a lot of gradients, but fun nonetheless!

[Laurence Stone @RatherBeCoding7]

What meme would go with this?
"If I had come through K12 these days... I wouldn't exist!"
--- a doctorate in math who won't let me use her name

[Laurence Stone @RatherBeCoding7]

Here's something to try:
I just got back from vacation, far enough north that I had no internet. The fun was around us. But now I followed a link to YouTube, and got hit over the head with an iMac screen full of "HEY! THE FUN IS OVER HERE! NO, HERE!" Talk about two worlds...

[Laurence Stone @RatherBeCoding7]

Somebody please invent a 24-inch iPad that I can place on a podium and project onto a screen.
Wait: and some kind of glove (no finger tips) so if the side of my palm hits the screen, nothing opens up.

[Laurence Stone @RatherBeCoding7]

@thedanielaros Sometimes the best rest from work comes from spending quality time on a different kind of work!

[Laurence Stone @RatherBeCoding7]

@SwiftUI_newbie Full time? Way to wreck a great hobby

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Photo by https://t.co/VOesPUmFRi on Unsplash

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Who misses the days of big print publishing? You know, when they used to put so much effort into catching all the typos, before going to press...

[Laurence Stone @RatherBeCoding7]

First two app assignments due this term (SOH-CAH-TOA):
https://t.co/F4p5TJVdm0

[Laurence Stone @RatherBeCoding7]

Flash-and-Math, eat your heart out :-)

[Laurence Stone @RatherBeCoding7]

@seraleev More to the point: How many days did it take to create each app?

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Is it just me, or is it a whole lot easier to make typos now that xcode tries to finish all my thoughts for me?

[Laurence Stone @RatherBeCoding7]

I side-load the app onto my device. It works. Wonderful! Time for a break. Then I come back and xcode has new errors for me... what in the world

[Laurence Stone @RatherBeCoding7]

@pigg_thomas I only have one app out at the moment, but I kept it very simple: "This app records no private data" was about all I had to say 🙂

[Laurence Stone @RatherBeCoding7]

I wonder what's the fastest anyone has gone from idea to App Store?

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@SwiftUI_newbie OK so wait: what is being bet on? Someone has won 100% of bets when the odds were between 2.16:1 and 2.85:1?

[Laurence Stone @RatherBeCoding7]

My smallish apps are getting bigger. Now my online students can save their quiz scores to Google Firebase and I can view them from home!

But wow, the various tutorials out there were all over the place. I half think I should make my own tutorial... for us "advanced beginners."

[Laurence Stone @RatherBeCoding7]

@SwiftUI_newbie As a "beginner," I can end up with very long Views because I'm too busy trying to see how things work to worry about splitting things off. The trouble is, I'll add one more weenie line of code and then boom I get "compiler cannot type-check the expression in reasonable time."

[Laurence Stone @RatherBeCoding7]

I seem to be on a run, running into AI errors. Folks, I know AI is fast and fun, but you MUST PROOFREAD! This from the Raisin site:

[Laurence Stone @RatherBeCoding7]

Did you know that Christmas Eve is always on a Sunday? That's what AI wants me to believe (line 2):

[Laurence Stone @RatherBeCoding7]

@pigg_thomas Maybe you could try family coding? 😉
I remember doing that with my two young boys. They started with "Scratch," then graduated to simple javascript games, like Snake and Hangman! So much fun, so close to home