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# Building My First iPhone App - Day 3
- URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/app-3/
- Published: 2015-01-11T15:54:09.000Z
- Updated: 2015-01-11T15:54:09.000Z
- Author: Matt Birchler
- Tags: #Import 2023-06-01 22:41, #Import 2025-03-29 19:29

I hit a wall today, and that wall's name was "tuples." Fucking tuples.

I shouldn't be mad at enums in particular, but this step in the training has taken a decidedly sharp increase in difficulty. We're starting to link multiple aspects of Swift together instead of just doing one thing at a time. This is good to be doing, but it feels a bit like we're taking the training wheels off.

I slaved away at creating some simple programs that analyzed a given name and told you whether that person is one of my co-corkers or not. It took a couple tries and I was completely stuck a couple times (staring at the screen, asking "what do you want from me!?").

Then, after nailing down my own program, I took the Treehouse test, and was stuck again. "They didn't show me how to do this!" So I experimented and tried to be clever and after an embarrassingly long time, I got it figured out.

![](http://cl.ly/ZG09/Screenshot%202015-01-10%2017.17.01.png)