At the Apple developers conference yesterday, Apple announced a new programming language for building apps. Here’s Wired Mags take.
This is potentially a big deal:
If it lives up to Apple’s billing, Swift may also allow a whole new type of coder to build applications for devices running the iOS and Mac OS X operating systems. “It could lower the barrier to entry for Apple developers,” says Caylan Larson, an iOS and Mac OS developer based Winona, Minnesota who watched the WWDC keynote online and is already poring over the new guide that details the Swift language. “It could open a lot of new doors for a lot of people.”
More Swift stuff:
Manual free online here for Swift developers:
https://developer.apple.com/swift/
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-swift-programming-language/id881256329?mt=11
If you’re already a programmer it can’t possibly take you 4 months to learn objective c. Especially if you already know c. 4 days maybe. Unless you mean Cocoa, in which case what you learned will still apply.
Posted on Jun 2, 2014 | 3:22 PM
When I was an undergrad at Berkeley, one professor said: “We will not teach you programming languages here. Any decent programmer should be able to teach himself a new language in less than a week.”
Posted on Jun 2, 2014 | 3:26 PM
So true. What matters most is that you understand how to map and model your project beforehand and understand the basic structure and syntax every programming language has. Variables, integers, arrays, if statements, loops.. You know that, you can learn (almost!) any language.
Posted on Jun 2, 2014 | 3:33 PM