I’m interested in learning how to develop apps using Swift, but all the tutorials I’ve found (even the ones on Apple’s website!) have explained things very poorly, either providing little explanation, or providing explanation that requires you to “figure it out”. This book, on the other hand, is easy-to-understand and comprehensive—in fact, there might be a bit too much reading material! But it is fascinating to learn about the quirks that make the Swift language unique; and the book comes with Playgrounds and projects that are simple, while effectively covering the essentials of using Xcode and making a GUI. It feels like it’ll be much easier to get into the Apple development world with the help of this book, and I really wish there was a 2023 edition of this!

I appreciate Apple for making these books available to us at no cost. Yes, they do promote their technology, so it is in their best interest to introduce the technology to as many people as possible. However, I cannot believe that a company with a market capitalization of $2.183 Trillion cannot keep their books in sync with the software that they produce. How many people does it take to update the books? Does Tim Cook know about this? Is it so hard to assign a couple of technical writers, technical staff and interns to update the books? Okay, if keeping these books in sync with Xcode releases is out of the picture, then provide us with links where we can download the supported [legacy] version of Xcode, possibly macOS. That should be doable and it would not take an intern more than a couple of hours to implement and test. Thank you! :-)

In page 460 import Foundation is needed.

They should make books that are at the latest version or maybe what we really need are a different type of book. We should have books that we can change the version of the program that is being used. It shouldn’t need a full rewrite of the book. Only rewrite the sections that need to be changed. With digital books this should be possible.

I LOOOOOOOOOOVE when the company that makes the book to use on the platform they also own for a coding language they created to make apps on their devices is not up to date with the same version that is being used.