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Published inFeb 2016
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ISBN-139781785887369
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Stuart Grimshaw
Stuart Grimshaw
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Stuart Grimshaw

Stuart Grimshaw has programmed for Apple computers since the days before OS X and has been involved with developing for the Apple Watch since its release. Born in the UK and having lived in Germany and the Netherlands, he is currently a Senior iOS developer in London, England, United Kingdom. He has around 10 years of end-to-end development of projects experience in, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS (Apple Watch), tvOS (AppleTV), and macOS. He is passionate about the potential of the Apple Watch and Apple TV, as well as Apple's Swift programming language, and is a keen proponent of beach coding.
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Expanding your skills


One of the great things about programming is that we will forever be able to expand our skills. New platforms (like watchOS) arrive, new programming languages are released while the old ones evolve, programming patterns change, and some practices inevitably lose their relevance.

Software engineering, like engineering in general, is too broad a field to master completely. Gone are the days when a skilled programmer would know most of what all the other skilled programmers know, and to a certain extent, we must all choose what we will learn and what we will not. It is probably wise to keep up to date on a core set of topics and technologies that pertain to your interests and activities as a programmer, however, given our common position as WatchKit developers, I'd like to suggest a couple of pointers.

HTTP

Being mobile means talking to the internet and talking to the internet means mastering at least the basics of the hypertext transfer protocol, better known as HTTP. While...

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Building Apple Watch Projects
Published in: Feb 2016Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781785887369

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Stuart Grimshaw

Stuart Grimshaw has programmed for Apple computers since the days before OS X and has been involved with developing for the Apple Watch since its release. Born in the UK and having lived in Germany and the Netherlands, he is currently a Senior iOS developer in London, England, United Kingdom. He has around 10 years of end-to-end development of projects experience in, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS (Apple Watch), tvOS (AppleTV), and macOS. He is passionate about the potential of the Apple Watch and Apple TV, as well as Apple's Swift programming language, and is a keen proponent of beach coding.
Read more about Stuart Grimshaw