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Justin Bower
Courses Plus Student 4,682 Points
Did Apple drop convention of putting "Some" in front of optionals?

Posted June 3, 2015 11:57pm by Justin Bower

Justin Bower
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Adrian Yeow
13,866 Points
Boolean

Posted June 1, 2015 6:46am by Adrian Yeow

Adrian Yeow
13,866 Points
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Chunhou Kok
674 Points
Final Challenge task of Swift Functions & Optionals.

Posted May 27, 2015 8:45am by Chunhou Kok

Chunhou Kok
674 Points
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German Kurbaji
2,943 Points
The preview doesn't give me any error but I still cannot compile it

Posted May 24, 2015 2:58pm by German Kurbaji

German Kurbaji
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Ryan Ferguson
4,786 Points
Exact same code; not getting a struct.

Posted May 23, 2015 3:06am by Ryan Ferguson

Ryan Ferguson
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Paula Samuels
1,853 Points
What in the world does "unwrapping an optional" mean?

Posted May 22, 2015 7:29pm by Paula Samuels

Paula Samuels
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Roderick Royce
1,236 Points
How do I adjust the function isNotDivisble to work with isDivisible? Optionals, functions, tuples, and bool are possible

Posted May 21, 2015 5:11am by Roderick Royce

Roderick Royce
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Casey Woelfle
Courses Plus Student 1,861 Points
Totally stuck on optionals in swift for iOS

Posted May 19, 2015 7:50am by Casey Woelfle

Casey Woelfle
Courses Plus Student 1,861 Points
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james oliver
Courses Plus Student 684 Points
Two Questions. Can we only return nill as an optional? constant vs var

Posted May 17, 2015 8:29pm by james oliver

james oliver
Courses Plus Student 684 Points
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Martin Adams
1,513 Points
There’s an error in your code at #00:48. It should read: println("\(aptNumber) is the culprit")

Posted May 16, 2015 1:40am by Martin Adams

Martin Adams
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Nigel Hall
4,650 Points
What is wrong with my code? I keep getting an error in my if let result line.

Posted May 13, 2015 9:06am by Nigel Hall

Nigel Hall
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Christopher Mayfield
19,928 Points
when I replicate his code, I don't get a struct.

Posted May 10, 2015 11:19pm by Christopher Mayfield

Christopher Mayfield
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Matthew Glick
2,638 Points
Challenge: Does my code work?

Posted May 8, 2015 7:08am by Matthew Glick

Matthew Glick
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Ryan Norton
6,218 Points
Why is the "?" suffix needed at all when chaining optionals?

Posted May 4, 2015 2:50am by Ryan Norton

Ryan Norton
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Derek Kneisel
2,487 Points
Did you use println() one time - ERROR

Posted April 28, 2015 2:11am by Derek Kneisel

Derek Kneisel
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Robert Mylne
13,708 Points
Return nil vs return false

Posted April 26, 2015 11:29am by Robert Mylne

Robert Mylne
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Megan Bullington
6,245 Points
In all of the videos, an optional returns "Some" and then the value. My xCode is just returning the value.

Posted April 22, 2015 4:24pm by Megan Bullington

Megan Bullington
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Adrian Yeow
13,866 Points
return nil

Posted April 22, 2015 5:20am by Adrian Yeow

Adrian Yeow
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Samar Khanna
1,757 Points
Understanding nil

Posted April 20, 2015 4:10pm by Samar Khanna

Samar Khanna
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Mohammad Rehman
Courses Plus Student 2,416 Points
I'm Stuck :(

Posted April 18, 2015 8:14pm by Mohammad Rehman

Mohammad Rehman
Courses Plus Student 2,416 Points
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Joe Dayvie
11,956 Points
Optionals in Swift

Posted April 15, 2015 5:40pm by Joe Dayvie

Joe Dayvie
11,956 Points
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Mohammad Rehman
Courses Plus Student 2,416 Points
Im stuck with this question any help ?

Posted April 15, 2015 4:43pm by Mohammad Rehman

Mohammad Rehman
Courses Plus Student 2,416 Points
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azumi yuan
3,126 Points
task 2 of 2 optionals

Posted April 15, 2015 6:02am by azumi yuan

azumi yuan
3,126 Points
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Julio Fabio Chagas
996 Points
I typed the right answer but I got only Bummer!

Posted April 15, 2015 12:23am by Julio Fabio Chagas

Julio Fabio Chagas
996 Points
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David Perkins
2,028 Points
Why don't we have to specify .boolvalue when printing "Divisible" and "Not Divisible"?

Posted April 14, 2015 10:10pm by David Perkins

David Perkins
2,028 Points
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AR Ehsan
7,912 Points
Challenge Task 1 of 2 The search function below returns a name if it is found in

Posted April 13, 2015 2:42am by AR Ehsan

AR Ehsan
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Alex Parkman
Courses Plus Student 1,659 Points
Help Please?

Posted April 7, 2015 7:41pm by Alex Parkman

Alex Parkman
Courses Plus Student 1,659 Points
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Alex Parkman
Courses Plus Student 1,659 Points
Help?

Posted April 7, 2015 4:09pm by Alex Parkman

Alex Parkman
Courses Plus Student 1,659 Points
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Vincent Day
578 Points
Not sure what the error is here. I'm getting - Bummer! You need to define a `func` named `search` that retruns an opti

Posted April 1, 2015 2:07pm by Vincent Day

Vincent Day
578 Points
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Hunter Christian Davis
2,813 Points
Optionals

Posted March 28, 2015 3:16pm by Hunter Christian Davis

Hunter Christian Davis
2,813 Points
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