Day 12: Well, All is Not Well in Order

The title isn't completely correct, but I had to stop today because I somehow managed to create a button that crashes the app.


Today was a long day. I woke up at 9:00 and pretty much worked 12 hours straight. I took a few breaks, but I was getting so involved with it that I couldn't stop. Today, I finally felt confident enough to stop relying so heavily on YouTube and the rest of the internet for solving problems.

Now for the bad. I thought that I had everything planned out. I realized that for the kinematic equations, there is always two variable missing. Due to this, there is no way to figure out which one the user wants to solve for without any kind of input or selection by them. I though I would be able to do something about this, but I came up with nothing. I decided to bite the bullet and erase all my work (on the kinematics) and start over with divided sections. I didn't lose everything though, I still had all my knowledge (°u°).

Secondly, for some odd reason, I created a button that crashed the app. I have no idea why it does that. It is just a copy of another button (not a copy-paste, but similar functionality). I had to give up for the night because of it, maybe it will fix itself over night.

I am getting really close to finishing. I plan to add more features in subsequent versions, but I am finished for this project timeframe. On Friday I am going to have to submit the app to Apple for review. They usually take about a week to review it so I hope that it will be on the App Store by the end of next week. This leaves me a week where I'm not doing any programming on the actual app. I'm planning to some marketing for the app. I'll make a website where people can learn more about PhyCalc. I'm going to design some fliers and have them printed out. I'm also thinking about making some kind of video to go along with the app, but I'll think about that next week.

--Cole