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The Big Nerd Ranch Guide to Structures and Classes in Swift

In this chapter from Cocoa Programming for OS X: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, 5th Edition, you will build a simple ... book At this point you should be somewhat familiar with using Swift’s standard types ... read more

IOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide 6th Ed (Big Nerd Ranch Guides)

This sixth edition of the Big Nerd Ranch guide to iOS programming has been updated for Xcode 8, Swift 3, and iOS 10 ... See Harry Fairhead's review of the 2011 edition, iOS Programming: The Big Nerd ... read more

Achieving Nerdvana: Learning Swift for iOS at Big Nerd Ranch

With its origins at NeXT, Big Nerd Ranch is one of the more respected ... I survived seven days of the most intensive programming instruction of my life, and lived to write about it. After Apple ... read more

Apple's Swift 4 road map focuses on ABI, concurrency

Swift was introduced as an eventual successor to Objective-C in June 2014. [ Download InfoWorld’s essential guide to microservices and learn ... down the road," said Aaron Hillegass, CEO of Big Nerd ... read more

Promises: A Modern Swift and Objective-C Library

We have a troubleshooting guide to combat this but I believe in tools that just work, and when you spend 4 years waiting for Swift to fix the issue and ... like it merits a close look as well: At Big ... read more

Patagonia’s Philosopher-King

Of Tim Kaine, he said, laughing, “That guy’s a full-on nerd!” When Clinton mentioned the value of compromise ... I’d apologize for the color schemes of those years, but apparently they’re now big in ... read more

Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (2e)

The Big Nerd Ranch Guide to Android is back with a second edition and now ... Even so the detour into an unnecessary topic when the reader is trying to master Android programming isn't really helpful. ... read more

Apple's Swift Programming Language Surging in Popularity

The rapidly increasing take-up of Apple's Swift programming language was confirmed again yesterday with the publication of a survey that ranks the popularity of programming languages. In the latest ... read more

The Big Nerd Ranch Guide to Structures and Classes in Swift

Swift alerts you to programmer errors by trapping, which results in stopping the program. Cocoa APIs use Objective-C exceptions. A trap is typically accompanied by a fatal error line in the console, ... read more