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+title: 'Swift Coding Challenges: Challenge 1'
+tags:
+- programming
+- ios
+- swift
+- coding-challenges
+category: coding-challenges
+date: 2020-04-20 13:36 +0100
+---
+As an effort to improve and challenge myself I got a copy of Paul Hudson's [Swift Coding Challenges](https://www.hackingwithswift.com/store/swift-coding-challenges) book and I'm going to work through it and post my thoughts on it and about how I did. I (probably) won't post the answers because that might spoil it for some.
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+For Challenge 1 I basically had the first answer, however I ... um ... made it more complex than I needed to (I'm going to blame it on doing it at 1am). I ended up using a dictionary to store the character and the count of the occurrences of that character, yet I still dropped out of the function if the dictionary keys contained the current character. 
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+I was over thinking the challenge and for some reason thinking about actually counting the occurrences of letters.
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+*facepalm*