May 2016
Beginner
350 pages
12h 24m
English
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Preface
Welcome to Learning Swift! This book will help you put the Swift programming language into practice by walking you through the development of a note-taking application for the Apple iOS, OS X, and watchOS platforms.
Swift is a pretty amazing modern language, taking the best from other newer languages without reinventing the wheel. Swift is easy to write, easy to read, and really hard to make mistakes in.
Our philosophy is that the best way to learn Swift is to build apps using it! To build apps, though, you need a great framework, and Apple has several: Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, and WatchKit, to name only a few. This book could quite easily be titled Learning Cocoa and Cocoa Touch with Swift, or something similar, because the frameworks are just as important as the language itself. At the time of writing, Swift is currently at version 2.2, and has a bright future ahead of it.
Resources Used in This Book
We recommend following the book by writing code yourself as you progress through each chapter. If you get stuck, or just want to archive a copy of the code, you can find what you need via our website.
As this book teaches you how to build a real-world app, we primarily focus on showing you the coding side of things. We’re not going to ask you to paint your own icons, so we’ve provided them for you. You can also download them from our website.
Audience and Approach
This book is solely focused on Swift 2 and does not cover the use of Objective-C. We might mention it occasionally, ...
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