Coding iPhone Apps for Kids: A Playful Introduction to Swift

Coding iPhone Apps for Kids: A Playful Introduction to Swift — page 1 — About the Authors Gloria Winquist is a longtime Apple enthusiast and has fond memo ries of playing Zork on her family’s Apple III home computer Her first programming languages were Logo and BASIC and then she learned C while getting her mechanical engineering degree She worked for a while as a mechanical engineer but realized all she really wanted to do at work was write code So she went to night school and learned Java then Lisp then JavaScript and finally iOS programming and Objective-C She found that she loved writing apps and has been doing it ever since Matt McCarthy first learned to program in BASIC on an Apple II at the age of 10 He still remembers his first program it was just two lines of code but he was instantly hooked He’s programmed profes sionally and for fun in many computer languages But when the iOS App Store launched in 2008 he was immediately drawn to it and soon started publishing iOS apps through his company Tomato Interactive LLC Matt has worked professionally as an iOS engineer since 2012 developing healthcare apps for doctors and patients Gloria and Matt live in Concord Massachusetts and are the parents of a blended family of six kids Coding iPhone Apps for Kids is their first book About the Technical reviewer Mark H Granoff is an iOS developer and professional software engineer For more than 30 years Mark has developed all kinds of software but in 2009 he switched his focus to iOS and founded Hawk iMedia www hawkimedia com He’s developed more than two dozen iOS applications and has reviewed several iOS programming books on a variety of topics Mark lives outside Boston Massachusetts with his wife two daughters and one Cairn terrier named Kenzie About the Illustrator Keiko Satoh has been drawing ever since she could hold a pencil and her doodling skills came in handy when she had to move England not knowing a word of English Besides always finding some excuse to draw Keiko has worked in botanical gardens hospitals and even a cemetery organizing archives setting up websites and helping people understand their health and the environment These days she can be seen doodling with her Apple Pencil while in transit between the three cities she considers her homes Tokyo Boston and London

Coding iPhone Apps for Kids: A Playful Introduction to Swift — page 3 — Finally we are so grateful to Gloria’s dad Floyd Winquist for his patient and careful review of the book He tested all the examples read through several versions of all of the chapters and provided much valuable feedback xviii Acknowledgments

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