Learning Swift: Build a solid foundation in Swift to develop smart and robust iOS and OS X applications

Andrew J Wagner

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Paperback Jun 2015 266 pages 1st Edition

Andrew J Wagner

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If you are looking to build iOS or OS X apps using the most modern technology, this book is ideal for you. You will find this book especially useful if you are new to programming or if you have yet to develop for iOS or OS X.

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Ronnie Pitman Aug 16, 2015

This is not a huge, thick book, but it is a book packed with information. In the Preface it is written that this book is “especially useful if you are new to programming or….” While it’s true that Chapter 2 does start with the basics—variables, constants, tuples, arrays, dictionaries, etc.—the material moves on quickly. All concepts, throughout the book, are amply demonstrated in Playgrounds, but still, someone new to programming will have to pay close attention and probably reread portions. In at least two chapter summaries, the author himself refers to the material presented as having been dense. It’s good to have a book that deals in depth.Many programming books teach Swift in the context of iOS. This one does not but instead concentrates on Swift language fundamentals. It’s not a tutorial on how to build this or that app, and only in the penultimate chapter does the author address iOS and building an app.Many programming books also jam a great deal of code into one class. This author places a premium on code reuse and flexibility and writes his code accordingly.A note on the book’s code files: at the time I write this, if you download them from the publisher website they download as Learning Swift.zip.html. Unless Packt knows something I don’t know, you have to strip .html off the file name for it to open as a zip file rather than as gibberish.A small error in Chapter 2 (pdf page 13): “View | Assistant Editor | Assistant Editor” should be “View | Assistant Editor | Show Assistant Editor”. Otherwise this book is admirably edited and proofread.

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Aurélien Sep 02, 2015

What this book is not:This book is not a Bible, it does not deal with countless topics, it is not either a how-to guide to programming your first Iphone app. "Learning Swift" is not packed with information easily googled and deprecated within the next 6 months.What it is:Instead "Learning Swift" focuses on how to understand Swift programming, how the language is structured and how it works.It gives the keys to become a good swift developper by understanding the core concepts, while being concrete at every step of the process.A whole chapter is dedicated to Design Patterns, and even chapter 10 "Developing an App" is full of good advices on how to code properly and how to refactor your code.

Winston Sep 05, 2015

The author does a great job of taking the reader through all the intricacies of the swift programing language. Apple is now in Swift 2 and this book will put any novice or experienced developer in the drivers seat to building award winning ios apps. Buy it!

Sergio Martinez-Losa del Rincon Aug 14, 2015

This book is a very nice one to learn swift from scratch, it is useful information from easy topic to difficult ones, you can learn many useful thinks like categories, interpolation, infix/postfix, optionals...Patterns chapter is very handy, because you can reuse your programming techniques to create a more easy code. Also I found very useful optionals information.I learn a lot with this book, it deserves a 5-stars.

Michael Aug 28, 2015

I am new to learning Mac and iOS programming. This book is great even though I've only gotten through a couple chapters. It starts out with the basics of types, collections, conditionals and loops and builds on that.One note, this book was written for XCode 6 and Swift 1.2 so it will hopefully be updated for XCode 7 and Swift 2 when they are released since some of the basic functions are changing, for example the println() function is replaced by print(). The beta for XCode 7 does have functionality to convert the 1.2 to 2.0 code. Hopefully that will be in the final build of XCode 7.I look forward to getting deeper into learning Swift.

Learning Swift: Build a solid foundation in Swift to develop smart and robust iOS and OS X applications

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