Chapter 11. A Whole New World – Developing an App

Until this point, we have been concentrating almost exclusively on learning Swift without learning much about the platforms that it was designed for. This is because learning a new platform is a completely different world from learning a language. Learning a programming language is like learning the basic grammar of a spoken language. The grammar between the spoken languages generally expresses similar concepts but the specific words of the languages are often more varied, even if they are sometimes recognizable. Learning a programming language is learning how to connect the specific vocabulary of your desired platform. This chapter will be about learning some of the vocabulary of the iOS framework. ...

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