Learning about table views in swift

… or where does the data go in the end

As part of my current devslopes ios academy I try to invest as much time as possible into learning swift. In theory. In reality I have a fulltime job as a freelance java developer in one of the rather complicated areas, which is german institutional reporting. And this project takes a rather big toll on me right now. Which is ok, since I really do like to work this way. But sitting down and more or less going to school at the end of an ordinary stressfull day is not always what I manage to do. Having two kids with their own learning difficulties, doing the cooking during the pandemic while additionally remodeling the house is in sum rather demanding for me and my wife, which works as a part time teacher.

Nevertheless at least at the weekends I normally find the time to dig into the course.

Not as fast as the other participants, but the great thing about this course is that you do it in your own speed. After almost a year, I managed to advance into week 4 of the course.

In the week 4 curriculum I came across the section 3.7 of the apple book “App development with swift”, which is about tab bar controllers. And to fully dive into this I also worked on the navigation controllers (chapter 3.6) with its lab, and then finally on the lab in chapter 3.7.

This lab is actually a rather simple one. Create an “About me” application with a couple of views, each representing a different aspect of your life. I started with…