Published inNerd For Tech·Apr 10, 2022Build an iOS app with the Delegate PatternYou use delegates to interact with Cocoa objects that inform you of events in an app. Source: Apple Documentation You can use the delegate pattern to communicate between objects, on a one-to one basis. AnimeFight AppIOS App Development2 min readIOS App Development2 min read
Published inBetter Programming·Apr 10, 2022Build an iOS Application Using the Key-Value-Observer Pattern (KVO)How to use dynamic dispatches in your codebase — Key-value observing is a Cocoa programming pattern you use to notify objects about changes to properties of other objects. Source: Apple Documentation Ever watched the Truman Show? It’s about a guy living an ordinary life while his every move is recorded and broadcast to a vast audience. OK, but why…IOS4 min readIOS4 min read
Mar 21, 2022Build an iOS app with NotificationCenterA notification dispatch mechanism that enables the broadcast of information to registered observers. Source: Apple Documentation Use Case Surely you have worked with communication patterns before. One example for a communication pattern is the delegation pattern. The delegation pattern is a one- to- one relationship, meaning one class communicates to another. In…Swift3 min readSwift3 min read
Published inNerd For Tech·Mar 14, 2022Singly Linked Lists in SwiftA singly linked list is one of many data structures. A data structure is a collection of data, the relationships between them, and the functionality or methods that can be used to access them. The conventional data structures used extensively in Swift are arrays, sets and dictionaries. These data structures…Swift12 min readSwift12 min read
Published inNerd For Tech·Sep 29, 2021Functional Programming in Swift: map, filter, reduce, mapValues, compactMap, compactMapValues, flatMapIt is recommended to know how closures work in order to understand this article. Read my article on closures here. Imagine you are building a weather app and you are displaying the temperature in Celsius to your users. But as luck would have it, the majority of your user base…Swift4 min readSwift4 min read
Sep 18, 2021Bubble Sort in JavaScriptBubble Sort is one of many sorting algorithms it is not used often because of its inefficiency, but there are use cases in which it excels larger values are being swapped (bubbled) to the top Intuition The array that is started with here is [5, 1, 4, 2, 8]. The goal…Programming5 min readProgramming5 min read
Sep 8, 2021Binary Search in JavaScriptIf you are new to Binary Search, I suggest you read my previous blog post “Algorithm Series — Binary Search”, before reading this article. Coding Task Implement Binary Search on the array [2, 5, 6, 9, 13, 15, 28, 30] in order to find the value 15. Pseudocode For Binary…JavaScript5 min readJavaScript5 min read
Published inNerd For Tech·Sep 6, 2021Binary Search AlgorithmWhat is Binary Search? a fast form of search only works on sorted arrays in contrast to linear search, where you have to eliminate one element at a time, binary search eliminates half of all elements in a single step Divide and ConquerAlgorithms2 min readAlgorithms2 min read
Published inNerd For Tech·Apr 26, 2021What are Closures and how do they work in Swift? (Step-by-Step Guide)This article explains the basics of closures. Concepts like escaping closures, completion handlers and linked lists are not discussed here, but will be in future posts :). For this guide, it is recommended to follow along in playgrounds and experiment with the code. It is no secret that many aspiring…IOS5 min readIOS5 min read
Mar 13, 2020Why Free Will is an IllusionDo we have free will? In this essay, my main aim is not only to demonstrate how vacuous our common notion of free will is, but also to persuade you that it does not exist. …Free Will10 min readFree Will10 min read
