Preface

Swift has risen quickly to be one of the preferred languages among developers and will have a long and fruitful future under the guidance of Apple. Since making the language open source over a year ago, it's become clear that Swift will be a versatile cross-platform language with a wealth of opportunities beyond Apple's ecosystem.

This book will introduce you to programming in a fun and approachable way. We will be building and interacting with fun examples to help you grasp multiple concepts. We will also be building fun iOS applications to help solidify your knowledge of Swift.

What this book covers

Chapter 1, What is Programming?, introduces the Swift programming language.

Chapter 2, Getting Set up, shows you how to install Xcode and ...

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