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The Swift Programming Language (2014)

by Apple Inc.(Favorite Author)

3.93 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Apple Inc.

review 1: Whenever a new programming language is introduced my reaction tends to be, "here we go again" However, in this case, I was somewhat excited. Since Mac OS and iOS programming is in Objective C and Objective C, while more palatable than C++, is still carrying around C's baggage, this looked like an opportunity.The book itself is well-written and very easy to follow.The language itself looks quite expressive though two oversights seems to be access modifiers on class components (like "private") and a lack of exceptions. Hopefully both will be quickly rectified.The book itself just describes the language. The standard library or how one interfaces with Objective C and Cocoa aren't touched upon here. Both are important but probably rightly belong in different documents.Definite... morely worth reading for anyone interested in Mac or iOS programming.
review 2: I've read this book to get an idea about the new Swift language and I must say that I'm very satisfied of the quality of the publication and the code examples. The language seems very modern, it resembles a lot of constructs seen in scritp languages like Perl, but with the performance of a compiled language. I think that after this reading I'll subscribe to the iPhone Developer Program to start practicing with Swift with the new XCode and maybe one day I'll publish my first app on the App Store less

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