I'd highly recommend Functional Programming in Swift for more intermediate topics. By Eidhof, Kugler, and Swierstra
http://www.objc.io/books/fpinswift/
No affiliation to the author/book.
Shameless plug - I made a site that gathers resources for learning Swift. Will be adding this shortly :)
I like the style, brevity, and practicality of the book (at least the first few chapters; haven't read it all yet). Good stuff and good luck with it.
I did find the first few examples with the REPL to be a bit confusing. Were you using a function before it was defined?
Slight tangent, but are there any recommended guides/books/videos for leaning the iOS frameworks with swift?
I have recently started programming on iOS with swift. I got my head around the language just not any of the frameworks, specifically UIKit.
This is very helpful. Thanks for sharing! Great that it's free too :)
This is fantastic, just what I was looking for, a very quick intro to swift that assumes I'm already a programmer.
The Apple docs, at least last time I tried reading through them, were like wading through treacle so this is a great alternative! I just read the first couple of chapters in 10 minutes and got all the key info I wanted with no fluff - great job!
One edit suggestion - I've noticed a couple of times so far that "it's" is used incorrectly, for example in this sentence:
> You can’t change the type of a variable once you’ve declared it. It’s type is fixed at the time it is declared.
I assume you know the error here but on the off chance you don't:
it's = it is (it's a Bool) / its = the possessive of it (Bool is its type)
It's a little jarring so you might want to go through and fix these.
Cheers for the book! :-)
In Chapter 4, you have a typo: "dynamicly" should be "dynamically"
I love this. Btw, totally off topic : Is it possible to write iOS/OSX apps by learning Swift without the knowledge of ObjC ? My background : I know some Java/Ruby and do some Android apps.
Nice, I'm learning Swift from your site. The kerning for Chapter "10.4" is killing me though. Other than that I'm enjoying going through it. :D
Have just started learning Swift. Have favourited, and will be sure to give some feedback once I've made my way through the whole thing. Good luck with it!
Hi Aidan, your about Author section has a typo says'bulding' rather than building.
Looks awesome! Thanks for your time I will definitely look into it deeply soon!
Great another out of date book ,that will no doubt push swift 1.2 when swift 2.0 is out.
Thanks! probably coincidence, but seems a typical setup of keywords/chapters, the Tuts+ and some other tutorial have very similar layout.
Sorry, but this guide is not as comprehensive or updated as the official documentation [1]. Just compare the generics or memory management sections to see why you would want to read the official documentation. Maybe a high level tour of swift but you certainly are not going to learn swift with this guide.
[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Swift/...
I've been learning Swift in recent months, and as part of that process I wrote a short book about the language.
It's aimed at developers (like me) who can already program in a language like Ruby or Python and are looking for a quick tour of Swift.
It's available to read for free online at http://books.aidanf.net/learn-swift
I'll be adding stuff about yesterdays announcements in the next couple of weeks.