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First edition, first printing, December 2015
Release E.1.1.1
For my wife, who is smart, strong, and virtuous. And for my family, who has given me every opportunity to live a good life. |
| M.M. |
For my wife and best friend; you are swonderful. And for my daughters, who bring me joy every day. |
| J.G. |
We received a lot of help in writing this book. Without it, this book would not be what it is, and it may have never even happened. Thanks are due.
First, we need to say thank you to our colleagues at Big Nerd Ranch. Thank you to Aaron Hillegass for providing us with the opportunity to write this book. It has been immensely gratifying to learn and teach Swift. Big Nerd Ranch provided us with the time and space to work on this project. We hope that this book lives up to the trust and the support that we have received.
Particular thanks are also due to our colleagues in the Cocoa Pod at Big Nerd Ranch. Your careful teaching revealed many bugs in the text, and your thoughtful recommendations led to many improvements in our approach. Those of you who are not instructors helped to review the materials, vetted our approach, and provided countless suggestions that we never thought of. It is truly wonderful to have colleagues such as you. Thank you Pouria Almassi, Matt Bezark, Nate Chandler, Step Christopher, Kynerd Coleman, Matthew Compton, Joseph Dixon, Robert Edwards, Sean Farrell, Brian Hardy, Florian Harr, Tom Harrington, Bolot Kerimbaev, Christian Keur, JJ Manton, Bill Monk, Chris Morris, Adam Preble, Scott Richie, Jeremy Sherman, Steve Sparks, Rod Strougo, TJ Usiyan, Zach Waldowski, Thomas Ward, and Mike Zornek.
Our colleagues in operations and sales are instrumental. Classes would literally never be scheduled without their work. Thank you Shannon Coburn, Nicole Rej, Heather Brown, Tasha Schroader, Mat Jackson, and Chris Kirksey for all of your hard work. We cannot do what you do.
Second, we need to acknowledge the many talented folks who worked on the book with us.
Elizabeth Holaday, our editor, helped refine the book, crystallize its strengths, and diminish its weaknesses.
Simone Payment, our copy-editor, found and corrected errors and ultimately made us look smarter than we are.
Ellie Volckhausen designed our cover; that skateboard looks pretty rad.
Chris Loper designed and produced the print book and the EPUB and Kindle versions.
Finally, thank you to our students. We learned with you and for you. Teaching is part of the greatest thing that we do, and it has been a pleasure working with you. We hope that the quality of this book matches your enthusiasm and determination.
Apples World Wide Developers Conference is an annual landmark event for its developer community. It is a big deal every year, but 2014 was particularly special: Apple introduced an entirely new language called Swift for the development of iOS and OS X applications.
As a new language, Swift represents a fairly dramatic shift for Mac OS X and iOS developers. More experienced iOS developers have something new to learn, and new developers cannot rely on a venerable community for tried and true answers and patterns. Naturally, this shift creates some uncertainty.
But this is also an exciting time to be a Mac OS X and iOS developer. There is a lot to learn in a new language, and this is especially true for Swift. The language has evolved quite a bit since its beta release in the summer of 2014, and it continues to evolve.
We are all at the forefront of this languages development. As new features are added to Swift, its users can collaboratively determine its best practices. You can directly contribute to this conversation, and your work with this book will start you on your way to becoming a contributing member of the Swift community.
So, what about Objective-C, Apples previous lingua franca for its platforms? Do you still need to know that language? For the time being, we think that answer is an unequivocal Yes. Apples Cocoa library, which you will use extensively, is written in Objective-C, so debugging will be easier if you understand that language. Moreover, most learning materials and existing Mac and iOS apps are written in Objective-C. Indeed, Apple has made it easy, and sometimes preferable, to mix and match Objective-C with Swift in the same project. As an iOS or Mac developer, you are bound to encounter Objective-C, so it makes sense to be familiar with the language.
But do you need to know Objective-C to learn Swift? Not at all. Swift coexists and interoperates with Objective-C, but it is its own language. If you do not know Objective-C, it will not hinder you in learning Swift. (We will only use Objective-C directly in one chapter toward the end of this book, and even then it will not be important for you to understand the language.)
We have written this book for all types of iOS and Mac OS X developers, from platform experts to first-timers. For readers just starting software development, we will highlight and implement best practices for Swift and programming in general. Our strategy is to teach you the fundamentals of programming while learning Swift. For more experienced developers, we believe this book will serve as a helpful introduction to your platforms new language. So while having some development experience will be helpful, we do not believe that it is necessary in order to have a good experience with this book.
We have also written this book with numerous examples so that you can refer to it in the future. Instead of focusing on abstract concepts and theory, we have written in favor of the practical. Our approach favors using concrete examples to unpack the more difficult ideas and also to expose the best practices that make code more fun to write, more readable, and easier to maintain.
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