Cecil Costa - Reactive Programming with Swift

Cecil Costa , also know as Eduardo Campos in Latin countries, is a Euro-Brazilian freelance developer who has been learning about computers since getting his first 286 in 1990. From then on, he kept learning about programming languages, computer architecture, and computer science theory.

Learning and teaching are his passions; this is the reason why he worked as a trainer and an author. He has been giving on-site courses for companies such as Ericsson, Roche, TVE (a Spanish television channel), and lots of others. He is also the author of Swift Cookbook First Edition and Swift 2 Blueprints , both by Packt Publishing. He will soon publish an iOS 10 programming video course.

Nowadays, Cecil Costa teaches through online platforms, helping people from across the world.

In 2008, he founded his own company, Conglomo Limited (http://www.conglomo.es), which offers development and training programs both on-site and online.

Throughout his professional career, he has created projects by himself and also worked for different companies from small to big ones, such as IBM, Qualcomm, Spanish Lottery, and DIA%.

He develops a variety of computer languages (such as Swift, C++, Java, Objective-C, JavaScript, Python, and so on) in different environments (iOS, Android, Web, Mac OS X, Linux, Unity, and so on) because he thinks that a good developer needs to learn all kinds of programming languages to open their mind; only after this will they really understand what development is.

Nowadays, Cecil is based in the UK, where he is progressing in his professional career as an iOS team lead.

I would like to thank Mr. Isaac Newton for discovering his third law: For every user action there is a ReactiveCocoa reaction.

I would like to thank Mr. Robert William Bemer for creating the escape key, and my son, Gabriel Campos Oliveira, for bringing happiness into my life.

Maksim Mikheev is an experienced iOS developer, who specializes in native development with Swift and Objective-C. He has worked with all major iOS releases starting with iOS 4. He has gathered a solid expertise in all aspects of developing apps for Apple's mobile platform, starting from the idea to the development of the app to publishing the app in the App Store. Maksim has worked in different types of companiessmall-scale businesses, start-ups, and large-scale companies. He also owned a web development consultancy company. He developed mobile apps for major Russian companies and government bodies, including a Russian leading consulting company, Strategy Partners Group, and the largest Russian bank, Sberbank.

Maksim is a longtime blogger, writing primarily about mobile development and other IT topics. He is also the host of two successful Russian podcasts concerning different kinds of hobbies. In his free time, Maksim is either reading or programming for one of his pet projects. He is a huge fan of science and follows the latest scientific and technological news and developments. Being a geek, he is always interested in modern gadgets and devices. He tweets a lot about mobile development, IT, and science. You can reach him on Twitter at @maxmikheev.

He aspires to reach the next level as a software developer, which is why he is constantly working on improving his skills and expertise.

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