Chapter 1
Setting Up an Xcode Swift Project
In This Chapter
Introducing Swift
Setting up your computer for Swift
Defining your development preferences
Creating and exploring your first project
Swift is Apple’s new language for developers to use with iOS and OS X devices. As such, it is the successor to Apple’s existing iOS/OS X development language, Objective-C, but Swift has been designed to cooperate with and work alongside Objective-C, so this should be a slow transition to power.
Some Swift beginners come to the language with proficiency in other languages, ranging from C and its offshoots such as C++ and Objective-C, to newer languages such as Ruby, Python, and Java, as well as scripting languages such as PHP and JavaScript.
Whether you’re just starting out as an Apple developer or are an experienced developer who wants to add Swift to your skills, this chapter helps you get started. There’s one very important point to remember: As of this writing, the iOS API (application programming interface) and SDK (software development kit) are less than ten years old. (They were launched ...
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