{"id":928,"date":"2014-07-24T15:46:47","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T21:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesonquave.com\/blog\/?page_id=928"},"modified":"2016-10-10T17:48:54","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T23:48:54","slug":"learn-swift","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jamesonquave.com\/blog\/learn-swift\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn Swift"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A collection of links from around the web to help you learn swift.<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff5500;font-size:1.1em;\"><a style=\"color: #3333ff;\" href='http:\/\/jamesonquave.com\/swiftebook'>Developing iOS Apps In Swift (eBook) is now available for early access.<br \/><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Learn More &raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h1>About this page<\/h1>\n<p>This list is for external resources to this site. If you&#8217;re looking for my tutorials and essays on Swift. Please <a href='http:\/\/jamesonquave.com\/blog\/tutorials\/'>check here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>This page a work in progress. If you found a resource that was highly valuable, make sure to <a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Hey @jquave, '>tell me about it on Twitter<\/a> or <a href='mailto:jquave@gmail.com'>via E-Mail<\/a>.<\/i> I also send out an e-mail blast when I post tutorials, or find something really cool to share. So make sure to <a href='http:\/\/jamesonquave.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe\/post?u=1d2576bf288fe2fd7fa71bd20&#038;id=6c787ed58a'>sign up for my newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Beginner<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A0C6L4XmrZM'>WWDC 2014 Intro to Swift &#8211; Apple<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/blog.teamtreehouse.com\/an-absolute-beginners-guide-to-swift'>An Absolute Beginner\u2019s Guide to Swift &#8211; Treehouse<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.weheartswift.com\/swift-classes-part-1\/'>Intro to Classes &#8211; We <3 Swift<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/library\/prerelease\/ios\/documentation\/Swift\/Conceptual\/Swift_Programming_Language\/GuidedTour.html'>A Swift Tour &#8211; Apple<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Intermediate<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.russbishop.net\/'>Russ Bishop<\/a> &#8211; Russ discusses some of the lower level components of Swift. Very interesting to read, and very informative.<\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/nshipster.com\/'>NSHipster<\/a> &#8211; This list would be incomplete without mentioning NSHipster. Matt Thompson is the author of AFNetworking, a hugely popular networking library for iOS. It&#8217;s all Objective-C, but Matt&#8217;s blog has always been very enlightening and he has continued writing about &#8220;obscure topics in objective-c&#8221;, even after the objective-c part became Swift.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Advanced<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/natashatherobot.com\/'>Natasha The Robot<\/a> &#8211; Pretty much everything here is excellent. Covering small topics at a time, but discussing them in depth.<\/li>\n<ol>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/natashatherobot.com\/ios-8-self-sizing-table-view-cells-with-dynamic-type\/'>iOS 8: Self Sizing Table View Cells with Dynamic Type<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/natashatherobot.com\/swift-parameter-names-in-functions\/'>Swift: Demystifying Parameter Names In Functions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/natashatherobot.com\/swift-conform-to-sequence-protocol\/'>Swift: How To Conform to the Sequence Protocol<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/owensd.io\/'>David Owens<\/a> &#8211; David has been providing some good updates as Swift changes, and provides some good code samples to look at.<\/li>\n<ol>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/owensd.io\/2014\/06\/16\/swift-thoughts-objc-without-the-c.html'>Is this really ObjC without the C?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/owensd.io\/2014\/07\/21\/testing-privates.html'>Swift: Testing Privates (or rather, internals)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/owensd.io\/2014\/07\/09\/error-handling.html'>Swift: Error Handling<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/airspeedvelocity.net\/'>Airspeed Velocity<\/a> &#8211; A blog created to talk exclusively about Swift. I believe the author was a C++ developer so they provide an interesting perspective to see Swift through.<\/li>\n<ol>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/airspeedvelocity.net\/2014\/07\/21\/changes-in-the-swift-standard-library-in-beta-4\/'>Changes in the Swift Standard Library in Beta 4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/airspeedvelocity.net\/2014\/07\/13\/swift-structs-and-accessing-properties-by-name\/'>Swift Structs and accessing properties by name<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/airspeedvelocity.net\/2014\/07\/10\/swifts-lazy-collections-and-sequences\/'>Swift\u2019s Lazy Collections and Sequences<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2>Help these authors get visibility. Because sharing is caring <3<\/h2>\n<p>[socialring]<\/p>\n<h2>Why I made this page<\/h2>\n<p>Ever since the release of Swift I&#8217;ve been working hard to produce great content to help the rest of the community get acclimated to the new language. I&#8217;ve shared my very first experiences with the language in the form of <a href='http:\/\/jamesonquave.com\/blog\/developing-ios-apps-using-swift-tutorial\/'>a comprehensive tutorial<\/a>, discussed how to <a href='http:\/\/jamesonquave.com\/blog\/running-swift-scripts-from-the-command-line\/'>write Swift from the command line<\/a>, talked about <a href='http:\/\/jamesonquave.com\/blog\/making-a-post-request-in-swift\/'>making network requests<\/a>, and provided updates on <a href='http:\/\/jamesonquave.com\/blog\/access-control-for-swift-in-xcode-beta-4\/'>topics that changed since the initial release<\/a>. This page is the opposite of that, I want to exclusively share only the work of others. If you do want to read more about my work, feel free to navigate around the site, or check out <a href='http:\/\/jamesonquave.com\/swiftebook'>my upcoming book<\/a>. This page is about giving back to the people who have been sharing content for free to help us all learn. 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