Chapter 1. Taking the First Steps with Swift
Ever since I was 12 years old and wrote my first program in the BASIC programming language, programming has been a passion for me. Even as programming became my career, it always remained more of a passion than a job, but over the past few years, that passion waned. I was unsure why I was losing that passion. I attempted to recapture it with some of my side projects, but nothing really brought back the excitement that I used to have. Then, something wonderful happened! Apple announced Swift. Swift is such an exciting and progressive language that it has brought a lot of that passion back and made programming fun for me again.
In this chapter, you will learn:
- What Swift is?
- What are some of the features ...
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