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The Swift Programming Language

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Beginning Swift Games Development for iOS

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Swift is Appleā€™s new programming language intended to be the future replacement of Objective-C for Mac and iOS development. Some people are referring to it as a functional programming language, but it is actually an object-oriented programming language with a healthy dose of generic programming.

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Ā© 2015 James Goodwill and Wesley Matlock

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Goodwill, J., Matlock, W. (2015). The Swift Programming Language. In: Beginning Swift Games Development for iOS. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-0400-9_17

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