Swift London | Hands On

HELLO

WELCOME TO TRACK TWO

This is the hands-on track for our two track series of monthly meetups. If you came to the talks series, and you want to get your hands dirty, this track is for you. If you just want to get together with fellow Swift Londoners, enjoy some collaborative learning-through-doing, then likewise, this track is for you.

Some of the things we hope to try as the months go on: experimental project sessions, mini-dojos, workshops, study groups, pair programming, and Swift London special projects. We hope the two tracks will be complimentary: things you pick up in the talks can be practiced and played with here (as long as Beta updates don't render things obsolete!)

Every now and then the Hands On session will culminate in a special event. Perhaps the first we'd like to try: a joint Coder Dojo with other Swift groups in London. Or a weekend hackathon if we can find accommodation. It's definitely something we'd like to work on; if you'd like to work on it with us please get in touch (https://twitter.com/swiftLDN/)!

More details as we fill them out, but for now it's an experiment, so calendars open, pencils in.

THIS EVENT, WE PRESENT

Swift London | Hands On

Swift is obviously still a very new language, and only very few of us have the luxury of diving deep so early on. This being the case, for the first six months at least, workshops will be a challenge. Coaches will be hard to come by. Teaching materials are still being written. The language keeps changing.

The thought: Many of us will have particular areas of Swift we'd like to experiment with; some of you will already have little projects; some of you will be stuck on difficult problems. If we all get together, arrange ourselves into small groups around different tasks, go at it for a while, then show & tell at the end, we'd probably learn a lot from each other.

For this session we ask: if you have a Swift project you'd like to work on with others, please bring it along. If there's a Swift GitHub repository you'd like to try out, or try to improve, please bring it along. If there's a part of an app that you'd like to translate from Objective-C, please bring it along. You get the idea.

We'll have a small project of our own, for those stuck for ideas. At the start we'll go around and hear your proposals, then vote as a group on how many we'd like to try. Those who propose a project will lead their group, and anyone who wants to join will join them. For those who are very new to Swift (there could be a few!), if you just want to watch and learn, that's absolutely fine.

After a good hour or so of small group programmings, we'll ask you to stop, and take it in turns to present your work. It's a great chance to learn from neat solutions, or ask for ideas, and hopefully we'll all pick up something useful.

That's the idea anyway. But it's an experiment, let's see what happens.

And bring your MacBook! Hopefully charged. Xcode 6 Latest Beta required (fast WiFi in the building if you need to download).

NOTABLES

As per usual, the doors are open from 6pm. Please feel free to come down early, grab a cup of tea or coffee and say hello to each other. Perhaps the best discussions happen in the pub afterwards (drinking very much optional), and if you gather outside the venue we'll walk you over. Our local: The Slaughtered Lamb (http://www.theslaughteredlambpub.com) | 34-35 Great Sutton Street | Route map (https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Skills+Matter,+116-120+Goswell+Rd,+London+EC1V+7DP,+United+Kingdom/The+Slaughtered+Lamb,+34-35+Great+Sutton+St,+London+EC1V+0DX,+United+Kingdom/@51.523916,-0.1002514,18z/data=!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x48761b574f527be3:0x5cbcad177df0b525!2m2!1d-0.099142!2d51.524617!1m5!1m1!1s0x48761b50dc84cbb3:0x11b720e00abc3577!2m2!1d-0.101144!2d51.523307!3e2).

The event is held at Skills Matter (https://skillsmatter.com/locations/96-skills-matter-exchange) | 116-120 Goswell Road | Map (https://www.google.com/maps/place/Skills+Matter/@51.524617,-0.099142,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x48761b574f527be3:0x5cbcad177df0b525). We ask that after registering your attendance here, you take a moment to sign in as attending on their event page (https://skillsmatter.com/meetups/6482-swift-london-hands-on).

CODE OF CONDUCT

While at the meetup (and hopefully in your life outside), all attendees are asked to behave respectfully in accordance with our CODE OF CONDUCT (https://www.meetup.com/swiftlondon/pages/Code_of_Conduct_%7C_Safe_Spaces/). In short, be nice, be respectful, consider others.