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Learning Swift - Best suggestions
Hey everyone,
I’ve been messing with complex nested if/then statements in Excel for many, many years, and recently dabbled in VBA. I’ve decided it’s time to learn Swift for Apple. Mainly for kicks, but also the fun of creating an app if I find a need.
For those of you that know these things, what’s your biggest suggestion for learning? Most useful tips? Things to watch out for? Etc.
Thanks!
Hey, new Tilderino. This is probably more of a ~comp type of post.
Thanks! Still trying to figure things out. Appreciate the input.
Not specific to Swift, but learning programming in general. I would recommend being picky about your learning resources. Shop around a lot. There are tons of resources out there, but that includes tons of poor quality contact that teaches just syntax rather than concepts.
Some universities have free online offerings of their 101 type classes. Stanford has an excellent one called Code In Place (taught in Python). I don't know if something like that exists for Swift, though.
You are probably already better than this, but have you checked out Apple's Playgrounds app? There are "books" that teach you the basics of programming with Swift, and it's also a simplified coding environment that you can use to do quick projects without getting too confused by Xcode's large array of options.
I’m actually going through Apples Playgrounds right now! Found it yesterday. Thanks
I think you could try Paul Hudson’s online courses: https://www.hackingwithswift.com/100
Thanks!