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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.raywenderlich.com/6307-saving-data-in-ios/lessons/3
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Right clicking on the path in the sidebar doesn’t bring up the same contextual menu as you have. My string starts with “var…” not “file:///…”.
Please also explain to the users who are not starting with your given material that they should still have that separate Swift file in the sources folder otherwise nothing will work.
Thank you

PS: FYI, I tried to use the same playground, created a new page to have things clean and things didn’t work anymore, as I guess each page has its own sources directory.

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@catie @jessycatterwaul @jcatterwaul Can you please help with this when you get a chance? Thank you - much appreciated! :]

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Right clicking on the path in the sidebar doesn’t bring up the same contextual menu as you have. My string starts with “var…” not “file:///…”.

The preview for our paths also start with "/var. It’s only the URL previews that begin with file:.

Please also explain to the users who are not starting with your given material that they should still have that separate Swift file in the sources folder otherwise nothing will work.

I mention this at 0:18 in this video. Let me know if something about that doesn’t make sense and we’ll rephrase it for the next update!

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Thank you Jessie.
I use to create my own playgrounds when I follow tutorials but in the video it is silently assumed that one has downloaded yours.

Also, the tutorial goes very fast and assumes a lot for a beginner. This is true also for the Swift language later part of the course. You just go too fast…

I mean, I had to look into the documentation for hours after a few minutes of video…

Thank you for your understanding

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There are usually two options for our episodes, at raywenderlich.com:

  1. Complete the previous episode, in its entirety, exactly as the instructor(s) did.
  2. Begin with the “Start” or “Beginning” folder.

It’s a special case, mostly only found in our earliest videos, where you’d be able to open an empty playground or project and begin from there.

I had to look into the documentation for hours after a few minutes of video…

This is an expectation that we’re working on making clearer to our audience. You should be able to learn a lot from our videos themselves, But, practically, due to time constraints, how much information is out there, and how much self-study and practice it takes to learn related material well, the videos are mostly a way to introduce you to concepts that you’ll need to spend a lot of time with, outside of a course, if you want to master what they cover.

That said, if you ever have clarifying questions about what we cover, please post in the discussion section for the appropriate video, and we’ll do our best to help!

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