Swift Programming Language Introduction
Welcome to my own personal course in programming in Swift! So first, let's take a quick history lesson, just so we know what we're dealing with here. Swift as a programming language was created by Apple Inc. Development started in 2010 lead by Chris Lattner, soon followed by other developers at Apple. Based on Objective-C , Rust , Haskell , Ruby , Python , C# , CLU and many other languages, Swift has won many awards, including first place for Most Loved Programming Language in the Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2015, as well as second place in 2016. As it is developed by Apple, it comes bundled with Xcode, the IDE from Apple used to develop software for iOS and Mac OS X, starting at Xcode 6.1. In this course we will be using Xcode to develop Swift apps for iOS, since I am currently an iOS Developer. Feel free to experiment with other IDE's or tools using the tools you have learned in this course, in fact, as a developer, it would be very beneficial, even necessar
