So, watching the 2015 WWDC Videos turned me on to value types as opposed to reference types. Three weeks ago, I understood that such things existed, but didn’t have any clue how they worked. This comes from a deep distrust of pointers when I was first coding in the mid-90s (all of my friends opted for C++, but I didn’t want to have to deal with pointers, so I picked C — I’m going to guess that not using Windows also pushed me in that direction).

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With the advent of Swift in the Apple Developer ecosystem, I’ve been learning quite a bit about the way that things work under the hood. Let’s get one thing straight, though: I am not a trained computer programmer. I’ve tried to take algorithm classes, but everything goes over my head because I don’t really want to spend the time figuring out what everything actually does. Everything I have learned is from trial and error (mostly through the errors).

So, bear with me, because things on this blog are about to get really simplistic. The point is just to have another entry into (hopefully) correct answers when you google something that you don’t understand. Who knows if it will work.