A small demo of Swift for newcomers.
Appsterdam Guru Sessions are informal, very hands-on workshops to share a technology or a technique between App Makers. Explanation from your peers, open discussion and practical experience are key to these sessions.
Samuel Goodwin from Roundwall Software, Ash Furrow from Artsy and Marga Keuvelaar from Black Pixel will introduce you to iOS programming with Swift in the way programmers learn best: through hands-on practical exercises. By the end of the session, you'll have a grasp of the UI coding, connecting to network resources, and the Xcode IDE... and most important, the skeleton of your first application. Best of all, we'll provide the pizza and beer.
11:00-11:30: Doors open, environment check. 11:00-12:30: Swift exercises (in case you didn't read the tutorial) 12:30-13:30: Lunch break 13:30-17:00: iOS training and hands-on exercises! 17:00-18:30: Pizza and Beer This session is targeted at developers who haven't yet learned iOS programming, or haven't yet flexed their muscles with it.
Your Mac with Xcode 8.x installed, which can be installed from the App Store.
Samuel has been developing software for Apple platforms since 2007. He has worked as a freelancer as well as developing in-house software for a NYC startup. He writes an app called Chainguard for iOS and helps clients and teams build iOS apps.
Ash Furrow is a Canadian iOS developer and author, currently working at Artsy. He has published four books, many apps, and is a contributor to the open source community.
Marga Keuvelaar is a Dutch iOS developer who is currently working for Black Pixel. Before that, she was an indie dev for many years. She loves to learn new things, and to help others learn.