Swift 5 for Absolute Beginners: Learn to Develop Apps for iOS

© Stefan Kaczmarek, Brad Lees, Gary Bennett 2019

Stefan Kaczmarek, Brad Lees and Gary BennettSwift 5 for Absolute Beginnershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4868-3_6

6. Learning Swift and Xcode

Stefan Kaczmarek¹ , Brad Lees¹ and Gary Bennett²

(1)

Phoenix, AZ, USA

(2)

Scottsdale, AZ, USA

 

For the most part, all programming languages perform the typical tasks any computer needs to do—store information, compare information, make decisions about that information, and perform some action based on those decisions. The Swift language makes these tasks easier to understand and accomplish. The real trick with Swift (actually, the trick with most programming languages) is to understand the symbols and keywords used to accomplish those tasks. This chapter continues ...