Introduction

Swift, the new programming language that replaces Objective C, was announced by Apple on June 2, 2014. Since then, there have been many updates to the language. At the time of writing of this book, we are at version 2. Swift is a very well-structured programming language that takes many features from existing modern languages such as C#, Haskell, and Python, and it introduces a few new features itself.

If you want to develop for the iOS, watchOS, or OS X platforms, you must learn Swift. This book teaches you the Swift language in depth; at the same time, you’ll learn how to develop games for the iOS platform. Because this book was written with game development as its context, you will learn that many of the new features are very ...

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