Swift for Beginners: Develop and Design, Second Edition

Acknowledgments

When Peachpit’s executive editor Cliff Colby approached me about writing a second edition of Swift for Beginners, I readily agreed for several reasons. First, Apple has continued to evolve the Swift language to the point where a book update was necessary—the first edition was already outdated with respect to Swift 2 language enhancements and Xcode improvements. Second, I was eager to work with the same great team of people who were part of the first edition.

Shortly after the project started, Cliff left Peachpit and moved on to another adventure, but not before introducing me to Connie Jeung-Mills, who took over as executive editor. She brought together the original team from the first edition: Robyn Thomas as editor and Steve ...