He has been a senior contributing editor at Dr. Dobbs and has written more than a hundred articles on software development topics. Gastn was also a former Microsoft MVP in technical computing. He has received the prestigious Intel Black Belt Software Developer award eight times.
He is a guest blogger at Intel Software Network (http://software.intel.com). You can reach him at gastonhillar@hotmail.com and follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/gastonhillar. Gastns blog is http://csharpmulticore.blogspot.com.
He lives with his wife, Vanesa, and his two sons, Kevin and Brandon.
Acknowledgement
At the time of writing this book, I was fortunate to work with an excellent team at Packt Publishing, whose contributions vastly improved the presentation of this book. Reshma Raman allowed me to provide her with ideas to write an updated edition of Object-Oriented Programming with Swift 2 to cover Swift 3, and I jumped into the exciting project of teaching Object-Oriented Programming in the most promising programming language developed by Apple: Swift 3.
Vikas Tiwari helped me realize my vision for this book and provided many sensible suggestions regarding the text, format, and flow. The reader will notice his great work. Vikas took the great work Divij Kotian had done in the previous edition and helped me in this new edition. Its been great working with Reshma and Vikas in another project and I cant wait to work with them again. I would like to thank my technical reviewers and proofreaders for their thorough reviews and insightful comments. I was able to incorporate some of the knowledge and wisdom they have gained in their many years in the software development industry. This book was possible because they gave valuable feedback.The entire process of writing a book requires a huge amount of lonely hours. I wouldnt be able to write an entire book without dedicating some time to play soccer against my sons, Kevin and Brandon, and my nephew, Nicolas. Of course, I never won a match; however, I did score a few goals.
About the Reviewer
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 good developers 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 developer.
Id like to thank Rahul Nair for being a such professional and good person.
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