Building Blocks – Data Science and Linear Regression
“Data science” or “Big data analyst” is a phrase that has been tossed around since the advent of Big Data. But what is it, really? Well imagine working for a
“Data science” or “Big data analyst” is a phrase that has been tossed around since the advent of Big Data. But what is it, really? Well imagine working for a
Computers are incredibly dumb. They have to be told explicitly what to do in the form of programs. Programs have to account for every possible branch of logic and are
Grab our new ebook Android Development for Human Beings and learn to build impressive Android apps using Material Design. Book author Mohit Deshpande is an app developer (Android and iOS)
In this post we’re going to see how to use Core Image to build a face detector. We’ll use a static image that we load into Xcode using the asset manager and draw on
In this post, we’re going to build a small app that will present a music library and allow us to query the data using a pre-existing database. We’ll learn about the
Structures We’ve discussed classes in Swift and how they are the foundation of object-oriented programming. In addition to classes, we also have structures that provide similar functionality. A structure is similar to a class since it
Initialization and Deinitialization Initialization is when we prepare to create an instance of a class. This process may involve configuring the properties or any other miscellaneous setup required before we can use
Basic Object-oriented Principles Before delving into Swift code, let’s first understand what it means to be object-oriented (OO) and the need for OO. We begin our discussion by talking about classes
In this tutorial, we’re going to explore grand central dispatch (GCD) and discuss concurrency topics and their applications. We’ll learn about concurrency, challenges with concurrency, and the application of GCD to help
In this tutorial, we’re going to discuss how to perform different kinds of animations on views. There are many properties on views that we can animate to delight our user. Using subtle
In this tutorial, we’re going to delve into Core Data and build an app to manage our contacts. We’re going to learn about creating a data model, add records to the model, fetch
Hello world! This is the last half of the Taskr post where we’ve been creating a project management app. In the previous post, we built the UI and the model
Hello World! This is the first half of the two-part post that will combine what we’ve been learning from several different posts into a fully-functional app: Taskr. Taskr is a classic project management app where the user
Hello World! In this post, we’re going to look at how we can retrieve the user’s location as pure data and as a position on a map. We’ll look into the CoreLocation and MapKit modules
Hello World! In this post we’re going to learn how to effectively navigate between two or more view controllers using segues and a UINavigationController. We’ll also see how we can pass data
Hello world! In this post, we’re going to learn how to use the new NSURLSession class to quickly and efficiently connect to the internet and pull data. We’ll be using the OpenWeatherMap
Hello world! In this post, we’re going to learn how to use UITableView to create dynamic lists of items. We’ll create a very simple app that will display a list of
Hello World! This is the 2nd and final part of our Unit Converter post. In this post, we’re going to finish our Unit Converter app and see it working in our emulator! We’ll delve into