The Swift Programming Language (Swift 5.7)
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3.9 • 15 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Swift is a programming language for creating iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS apps. Swift builds on the best of C and Objective-C, without the constraints of C compatibility. Swift adopts safe programming patterns and adds modern features to make programming easier, more flexible, and more fun. Swift’s clean slate, backed by the mature and much-loved Cocoa and Cocoa Touch frameworks, is an opportunity to reimagine how software development works.
This book provides:
- A tour of the language.
- A detailed guide delving into each language feature.
- A formal reference for the language.
Customer Reviews
Needs some updates
While its exciting to try out something new, as usual with the wild west that is the tech world, there are some ommisions in this text, namely issues surrounding updates in the language itself. For example with Xcode 6.1 the method/function toRaw() is replaced with .rawValue. When I see gaps like this, or overvcomplicating of explanation (Cisco I’m looking at you) I want to scream
In this digital day and age one would expect book mis a jour for instances of change such as this. (Apple, you can go look up “mis a jour” as a punishment for your wayward ways).
This type of slopiness, makes me worry for companise like Apple, where we see more style than substance… No I am not a troll, more a serious user of technical tools. I see a lot of orphaned children at Apple when it comes to software such as Apperture, possiby Final Cut and Motion, sometime in the future, or Filemaker Pro, which never has its act together when an new OS is released.
Apple, please invest serious time and money (all that lovely double Irish) in serious work on your software so that we can run with it in the years to come.
noooo
I hate it!