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In this chapter you will download, install, and set up the Apple developer tools necessary to follow along with this book. You will be introduced to the Swift programming language, by way of writing the venerable “Hello world” program and by seeing how two common actions are performed in Swift as compared with Objective-C: logging and commenting.

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Gardner, S. (2014). Getting Started. In: Transitioning to Swift. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-0406-1_1

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