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To write any program, you need to choose a programming language. A programming language lets you define commands for the computer to follow. There’s no one “best” programming language because every programming language is meant to solve a specific problem. That means that a programming language may be great at solving certain types of problems, but horrible at solving other types of programs.

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Wang, W. (2015). Learning Swift. In: Swift OS X Programming for Absolute Beginners. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1233-2_5

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