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Category Archives: Swift
Find keys by value in Swift dictionary
Here’s a helper method that might come in handy when working with a Swift dictionary. It finds every key mapped to a particular value. This file contains bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears … Continue reading
Finding unused resource strings in an iOS app
If you work on an iOS or OS X app that uses Strings files to store localized display text, over time those files can accumulate entries that are no longer used. Perhaps a developer forgot to remove a resource string when refactoring … Continue reading
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Creating Tic-tac-toe in Swift: User interface
This blog post is the third and final update about my Tic-tac-toe game, written in Swift. The source code is available on GitHub: https://github.com/ijoshsmith/swift-tic-tac-toe The app now has a user interface, which allows you to play against the computer or against another … Continue reading
Higher-order functions in Swift
This article reviews some very useful higher-order functions available in Swift’s standard library, by showing a simplified implementation of each function. Along the way, I’ll explain how all of the higher-order functions are based on a single loop. Let’s get higher Similar to how a rock … Continue reading
Creating Tic-tac-toe in Swift: Artificial intelligence
This blog post is the second update about my Tic-tac-toe game, being written in Swift. The source code is available on GitHub: https://github.com/ijoshsmith/swift-tic-tac-toe Over the past week I wrote an intelligent agent which implements the Tic-tac-toe strategy devised by Allen Newell and … Continue reading
Creating Tic-tac-toe in Swift: Gameplay and data model
This blog post is an update on my work-in-progress Tic-tac-toe game, being written in Swift. The source code is available on GitHub: https://github.com/ijoshsmith/swift-tic-tac-toe I’ve reached the first major milestone. The program is capable of playing Tic-tac-toe against itself, although there … Continue reading
Creating Tic-tac-toe in Swift
Normally I blog about a program I’ve already written. I decided this time to take a different approach, and blog about a Tic-tac-toe program that I’m writing instead. This will give people who are interested in watching a Swift program evolve over … Continue reading
Compressing a Swift array
Suppose you have an array of values in your Swift app and you need to compress it to a smaller size, with the intention of making it occupy less memory. If the array contains many consecutive repeated values it could be … Continue reading
Creating ASCII art in functional Swift
This article explores an iOS app, written in a functional Swift style, that converts an image to ASCII art. For example, when given the famous Lenna photograph… …it creates a string that, when printed, looks something like this… Zooming into … Continue reading
Caesar cipher in Swift
I posted a Swift project to GitHub that implements the Caesar cipher, which was the encryption technique used to protect Julius Caesar’s personal correspondence. It’s a straightforward algorithm that maps each letter in the alphabet to another letter. The code also … Continue reading
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