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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

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 annou... read more

Roundup of App Development (iOS 9/Swift 2) Learning Resources

To achieve my goal, I wanted to choose the best resource to learn iOS 9 app development and Swift 2 from ... Prerequisites: Some programming experience, familiarity with OOP. The Big Nerd Ranch Guide ... 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

How to draw a circle in Photoshop

Over the years I’ve needed to make simple illustrations for my blog posts, but I’ve been stymied by drawing simple circles. Looking up tutorials on how to do this in PhotoShop led me to confusing, wei... read more

Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?

I find that the books I'm least likely to bail on are the ones that lead me through the building of one big project like this. What are some of the best titles in this little subgenre? read more

Eclipse + Android Development Tools plugin

Android Studio is the tool provider for building different apps on devices that run under Android. With this studio you can begin immediately to code edit and performance tooling with a flexible build ... read more

Things I wish I had known before starting iOS development — Part 1

If you do not have enough programming experience in an Object ... My personal favorites are Big Nerd Ranch Guide for Objective-C and The Apple’s Guide for Swift. Sure you can learn a lot by reading th... read more

iPhone app development with Linux

Join the DZone community and get the full member experience. My employer, Chariot Solutions, held an in-house, week-long iPhone development course, taught by the folks at Big Nerd Ranch. The course wa... read more

Why are atoms mostly empty space?

I like this demo a lot. On a very tiny scale, objects act like both particles and waves. On a big scale, like our solar system, we can think of planets as discrete particles, interacting through gravi... 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, w... read more