general discussion in swift as beginner

I went through Swift 2 Basics this weekend and the instructor encouraged doing your coding in Xcode rather than workspaces to get used to Xcode so you're doing the right thing there.

I'm on the Fullstack JavaScript track so I don't know much about studying Swift yet, but what I've found helpful with coding in general is varying how I learn. I can relate to what you said about going through the motions. But I've found that reading a book on the same topic or doing some exercises on a different platform makes what I learned in Tree House sink in a lot better. Also, you'll hear it a million times, but using what you've learned so far in a small project goes a long way toward helping it sink in.

thanks Thelma...by the way any idea what it means to look at the documentation... like when the teachers mention it in the videos or when people discuss it in the community.

Yes... for Swift it's this: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Swift/Conceptual/Swift_Programming_Language/TheBasics.html

The documentation is the guide that the developers of the language (or plug-in or build tool, most things you include in your program come with some documentation) include to help people understand how to use it. Usually when the instructors mention documentation, there's also a link to it under the Teacher's Notes tab on the same video page.

Documentation can also be as simple as the Readme.md page people include with their repository on Github. Anything that helps other developers understand what your code is doing.

oh i thought that was it...i wasnt 100% sure though