Chapter 1. Introducing Swift
Welcome to the brave new world of Swift! If you’ve been paying attention to the buzz, you may have heard that Swift is an entirely new programming language created by Apple to empower developers to write iOS and Mac apps more easily and efficiently. Swift is so easy to learn that you’ll be writing simple apps before you know it.
Swift gives you powerful new ways to write code. Its readability is refreshingly simple compared to its worthy and powerful predecessor, Objective-C. With Swift, you’ll find new and interesting ways to express yourself as a developer, and learn the language and its capabilities.
You’ll find that expressing your ideas is easy in this innovative language. It also delivers power and flexibility ...
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