iOS How to learn Swift?

[whitneyhu]

I'm a second year Engineering student, did a bit of C++ in my course and I want to learn Swift.

Where should I start? Any ideas? The amount of tutorials I found online is not so promising.

 

[subsonix]

Where should I start? Any ideas?

Yes, get the 2 books that Apple has published. Then there are some blogs, including an official Apple blog.

 

[omenatarhuri]

I also started with a C++ background and did (am doing) the following:
- Read Apple's book
- Started solving Project Euler problems with Swift as first practice: https://projecteuler.net
- Figured out what I'd like to do for an App and started to code that

To keep myself motivated in the beginning I also wrote some blog stuff: http://swift.svbtle.com

Good luck!

 

[firewood]

Best tutorials so far are all the WWDC videos introducing, using, and debugging with Swift.

 

[whitneyhu]

thanks guys! But at the moment I've decided not to dwell on swift yet, because python has a much wider application (data etc) so I probably will work on that in the new academic year.

 

[joshuatbrown]

The Apple iBooks are great, as subsonix said.

The Swift Programming Language: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/swift-programming-language/id881256329?mt=11

Using Swift with Cocoa and Objective-C: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/swift-programming-language/id881256329?mt=11

Daniel Steinberg has also published one, called A Swift Kickstart: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/a-swift-kickstart/id891801923?mt=11

And if you're looking for a tutorial you can follow along with, you can check out the video of the Beginning Swift workshop I put on last week: