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iOS Programming Basics

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Creating mobile apps for both iOS and web deployment is fun and rewarding. With Xcode in place, you are ready to write code, build, and run iOS apps now. Objective-C had been the primary programming language for iOS apps until Swift was officially announced at the 2014 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. If you’re just starting to learn iOS programming, you should go with Swift because there is no reason to choose the old way and miss the latest and greatest features. Your next steps should be learning the fundamentals of the following:

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© 2015 Sean Liao and Mark Punak

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Liao, S., Punak, M. (2015). iOS Programming Basics. In: Migrating to Swift from Web Development. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-0931-8_2

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