Ahmad Sahar - iOS 13 Programming for Beginners

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Ahmad Sahar is a trainer, presenter, and consultant at Tomafuwi Productions, specializing in conducting training courses for macOS and iOS, macOS Support Essentials certification courses, and iOS Development courses. He is a member of the DevCon iOS and MyCocoaHeads online communities in Malaysia, and has conducted presentations and talks for both groups. In his spare time, he likes building and programming LEGO Mindstorms robots.

Craig Clayton is a self-taught, senior iOS engineer at Adept Mobile, specializing in building mobile experiences for NBA and NFL teams. He also volunteered as the organizer of the Suncoast iOS meetup group in the Tampa/St. Petersburg area for 3 years, preparing presentations and hands-on talks for this group and other groups in the community. He has also launched Cocoa Academy online, which specializes in bringing a diverse list of iOS courses, ranging from building apps to games for all programming levels, to the market.

Cecil Costa, also known as Eduardo Campos in Latin countries, is a Euro-Brazilian freelance developer who has been learning about computers since the time he got his first PC in 1990. From then on, he kept learning about programming languages, computer architecture, and computer science theory.

Learning is his passion as well as teaching; this is the reason why he worked as a trainer and a books author. He has been giving on-site courses for many companies.

He is also the author of three Swift books and two video courses.

Nowadays, Cecil Costa teaches through online platforms, helping people from every part of the world.

Chris Barker is a senior iOS developer and tech lead for fashion retailer N Brown, where he heads up the iOS team, building apps for their major brands. Having now worked in the IT industry for over 22 years, Chris has started developing .NET applications for retailer.

In 2014, he made his move into mobile app development with digital agency Openshadow at MediaCityUK. Here he worked on mobile apps for clients such as Louis Vuitton and L'Oral Paris.

Chris often attends and speaks at his local iOS developer meetup - NSManchester. Most recently he attended Malaga Mobile in Spain where he spoke about accessibility in mobile apps. Over the past 2 years, Chris has been a regular speaker at CodeMobile and will be returning to speak again in 2020.

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Welcome to iOS 13 Programming for Beginners. This book is the fourth edition of the iOS Programming for Beginners series, and has been fully updated for iOS 13, macOS 10.15 Catalina, and Xcode 11.

In this book, you will build a restaurant reservation app called Let's Eat . You will start off by exploring Xcode, Apple's programming environment, also known as its Integrated Development Environment ( IDE ). Next, you will start learning the foundations of Swift, the programming language used in iOS apps, and see how it is used to accomplish common programming tasks.

Once you have a solid foundation of using Swift, you will start creating the visual aspects of the Let's Eat app. During this process, you will work with storyboards and connect your app's structure together using segues.

With your user interface complete, you will then add code to implement your app's functionality. To display your data in a grid, you will use collection views, and to display your data in a list, you will use table views. You will also look at how to add basic and custom annotations on to a map. Finally, it's time to get real data; you will look at what an