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#JustCode Challenge Week 4 – Mini Golf ScoreKeeper

#JustCode Challenge Week 4 – Mini Golf ScoreKeeper

Published July 13, 2018 by Paul Lefebvre

Sometimes the idea for a great little app comes down to solving a silly little problem.

Last month, the family went mini-golfing for my son’s birthday. It was a lovely course called Pirate’s Cove Adventure Golf right next to the ocean. But they didn’t have scoring stands and we had to use a tiny pencil on a little cardboard scorecard to keep score. So this week’s app is a simple iOS app track of mini-golf scores!

The iOS app has two screens. The main screen has a giant Table that lists all the 18 holes. You tab on the detail button for a row (it’s the “I” icon) to go to the scoring screen.

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#JustCode Challenge Week 1 – Color Picker

#JustCode Challenge Week 1 – Color Picker

Published June 22, 2018 by Paul Lefebvre

It’s the first week of the Just Code challenge so I’m starting with something pretty simple. This app lets you choose a color using the system color picker and then shows you the color values in hexadecimal (useful for programming, HTML and CSS), RGB (red, green, blue), HSV (hue, saturation,value) and CMY (cyan, magenta, yellow).

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Jump Right In! Just Code Challenge

Jump Right In! Just Code Challenge

Published June 18, 2018 by Paul Lefebvre

I’m often asked by kids and adults how they can start coding and learn to make apps? You could start with the usual books or videos.

But maybe you want to jump right in. When I started programming that is exactly how I learned. I tried things to see what worked and what didn’t work. I also looked at and modified other programs I found.

You can learn to code if you just code.

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