I just uploaded the first update to my iPhone Spelling Toy. The update includes two minor changes:
- Corrected spelling of
siete
(Spanish forseven
) - Corrected spelling of
colores
(Spanish forcolors
)
Today, I am working on adding animal drawings.
Submitted small bug-fix to iPhone Spelling Toy
February 10th, 2010
Patrick Stein
Spelling Toy iPhone App Released
February 9th, 2010
Patrick Stein
I am pleased to announce, that my Spelling Toy for Kids is now available on the iTunes Store.
The first five respondents to this article will receive a Promotional Code to download the app for free! (Edit: all promo codes dished out… if you really want one and will publicly review my app in your blog, I’ll dig up another promo code for you.)
Features
- Kid-friendly interface! Just pick the letters you want!
- Guides your child to the proper spelling of each word.
- Adapts to your child! Cards that consistently give your child trouble show up more often.
- Support for English, Spanish, and French! (German and Japanese Kana coming soon)
- Lots of words to learn (with more coming soon).
- Three different skill levels to challenge your kid!
- Exercise some or all of the categories: Numbers, Colors, Foods (with more coming soon).
iPhone App Submitted To The App Store
February 4th, 2010
Patrick Stein
I just submitted my first my first iPhone app to the App Store. Once it is approved, I will announce it here.
Spelling iPhone App sent to Beta Testers
January 28th, 2010
Patrick Stein
I am pleased to say that I just sent my first iPhone app out to some friends to beta test. I expect to forward it along to Apple for inclusion in the App Store some time in the next week or two.
At this point, I am far more comfortable with Objective-C and the Cocoa class hierarchy than I was even a month ago. I still think Objective-C is awful. You take a nice functional Smalltalk-ish language, you throw away most of the functional
, you pretend like you have garbage collection when you don’t, you strip out any form of execution control, you add some funky compiler pragma-looking things (including one called synthesize
that only fabricates about half of what you’d want it to build), you change the semantics of ->
, and then you interleave it with C! Wahoo! Instant headache!
But, after I found the for-each sort of construction, my code got quite a bit simpler. A whole bunch of loops like this:
NSEnumerator* ee = [myArray enumerator];
MyItem* item;
while ( ( item = (MyItem*)[ee nextObject] ) != nil ) {
...
}
MyItem* item;
while ( ( item = (MyItem*)[ee nextObject] ) != nil ) {
...
}
went to this:
for ( MyItem* item in myArrayOrEnumerator ) {
...
}
...
}
Sneak Peek: Screenshot for Spelling iPhone App
May 6th, 2009
Patrick Stein
Earlier, I gave a sneak peek at some artwork for the children’s spelling game I am making for the iPhone. Here is a screenshot of the application (click for full size):
I need to touch up the jaunty logo tiles in the upper left. Some of them are worse for the wear after the perspective transformations and rotations. More to follow….