Introducing Swift

Re:Introducing Swift by lugg on Monday June 02, 2014 @06:27PM (#7836890)

Just read the first paragraph and conclusions if the have them, of each chapter. This will give you a good idea of what's there when you need it. Then I'd jump straight into tutorials.

Honestly skimming 500 doesn't sound horribly hard to me. I've done that a few times to pick up something new. As ap said you won't learn the language like that but you will have a good reference to go and learn from after the fact.

After that you could probably work through the examples in said book, or at least the interesting ones.

P.S. above steps is all I really learnt from my cs degree.

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Re:Introducing Swift by cnp on Monday June 02, 2014 @06:51PM (#7837008)

Skimming through it has been great. It's quite well-written and you'll get a lot of the concepts that the lang introduces even if the extent of your programming education is JS. Give it a try :)

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Re:Introducing Swift by josephjrobison on Monday June 02, 2014 @06:48PM (#7836995)

And is this the exact same language - http://www.cs.cornell.edu/jif/swift/doc/index.html

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Re:Introducing Swift by cschmidt on Monday June 02, 2014 @07:48PM (#7837268)

No, it is completely unrelated. That is the other language called Swift.

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