Code! Learn Swift Version 4+

This app makes learning coding fun! There are questions that take you step by step through the actual routine of coding, examples, and video tutorials throughout the whole thing. It isn't made super easy and you are encouraged to think through the problems rather than just giving you the answers. This helps you to remember the old stuff before moving on to new steps. This is a well made app and the developer obviously put a lot of thought into this.

Update 2/4/17: Been through several more lessons now. Still a great app! Just one small issue makes me almost take down a star. This is the second time I've been forced into reviewing the app to keep going. I think one review should be enough. I'm going to leave it at 5 but if I have to review again to keep going it's probably going down a star.

Update 2/4/17: only a few lessons later and being forced to review again. Review loses one star due to the repeated loop of forced reviews. Have to entirely close down the app and go back in even seconds after leaving a review. This is ridiculous!

The app is pretty decent and breaks down the fundamentals fairly well. One annoying thing is the sensitivity when it comes to how exact your answers are. You don’t need a period in a string or need to capitalize anything. The app makes you type exactly what they tell you, which can be frustrating considering all the points I got stuck weren’t because of a coding structure mistake or anything of the sort it was because of a missing space or something minor like a period. The real kicker is when you complete the very first basic lesson and they start charging you for every other lesson. Honestly I thought I found a free nifty tool to get a grasp on Swift coding but the prices are a bit hefty for my liking. Why would anyone buy an individual lesson? If you’re serious about learning you’re obviously going to want to know it all, not just a specific piece which is essentially useless without the rest. You can buy all lessons for $10 USD, or buying each individual lesson will rack up to around $47 - $48 USD. I’m sure this app is fine if you have the money to put into it, but I’d rather just look online for free and figure it out myself. At least the app doesn’t have any ads which is a plus but I’m just gonna uninstall and figure it out a different way. If you have the money, go for the $10 pack and if not, this isn’t the app for you.

I decided to use this app because of the incredible amount of reviews that the app had, 4K at the time of this review, and it’s high rating. Thinking this must be a good indication of its quality. Interestingly this number is most likely attributed to the app requiring you to rate it after completing the first lesson in the course, otherwise you must pay for the app. It’s a very clever way of getting reviews for your product and I commend the marketing teams use of strategy. So it seems that the 4K in reviews is mostly to do with the people like me who just want free stuff! 😊 Never the less the app is straightforward and intuitive and I like the user friendly environment that is used to help teach you swift. Maybe I’ll come back and write an update to this once I’ve completed all the lessons to make sure all these reviews don’t just consist of people who have completed just the first lesson.