Develop in Swift Explorations

Appl

Best book ever😍🤩

This is a really wonderful resource for getting started with learning Swift. I had been trying to learn various languages and struggled with how dry so much of the material was. This is a great book, it’s very engaging and the Xcode playgrounds do so much to help drive concepts home. It’s very friendly for beginners and there’s basically no reason not to get it since Xcode and this book come at the wonderful price of free. The reason that I give this book three stars is that the training wheels really come off in the last section and you’re basically given little instructions and expected to throw together a whole app from the instructions. I think this would be fine if a lot of the more indepth Xcode concepts were introduced earlier, but they aren’t. The only way I was able to get through this was referring to the teacher’s answer key that is available to download from the teacher version of the book. Referring back to past Playgrounds or apps built through the text was not sufficient to give me what I needed to know to get through the final pages. I thought that the teacher’s version of the book might have some additional context or steps meant to be provided to students, but that wasn’t the case. Granted, this is probably more difficult for me since I am just one guy looking at these materials and I don’t have anyone to help guide me, but I’m sure I’m not the only one trying to go it alone.