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Re: Show HN: Advanced Swift

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Post by chriseidhof »

Scarbutt wrote: post #8
chriseidhof wrote: post #2

Hey HN! We just finished our book on Advanced Swift, and I think you folks are the perfect crowd. There's also an online preview =). Let me know if you have any questions!

Found the terminology section in the online preview pretty good, stopped reading there, will buy :) Are you planning to release some updates sections for Swift 3?

We haven't got a concrete plan yet, but we definitely want to update it for Swift 3.

Re: Show HN: Advanced Swift

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Post by chriseidhof »

santaclaus wrote: post #3
chriseidhof wrote: post #2

Hey HN! We just finished our book on Advanced Swift, and I think you folks are the perfect crowd. There's also an online preview =). Let me know if you have any questions!

What sets this book apart from Apple's "The Swift Programming Language"?

The other comment in this thread explains it really well. Another point of view: Apple's book is targeted at all sorts of developers, from complete novices to people who've written ObjC for two decades. We target advanced developers, and assume that you are already a professional developer. That allows us to dive much deeper!

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Post by chriseidhof »

terhechte wrote: post #4

I've read the book (the pre-release and the final release) and it is currently the best Swift book I've read. For a book author, it is probably always difficult to decide which topics to include and which to leave out, and then how much time to spend on a given topic. Advanced Swift does really well here. They explain some of the most-used concepts in Swift in a very detailed way (like Collections, Optionals, Protoco…

Thanks a lot!

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Post by chriseidhof »

dan1234 wrote: post #9

In the UK, at least, it's cheaper the buy the paperback book (£27.32) than the digital edition ($46.80; ~£32.50). Presumably this is because VAT is charged on ebooks but not on physical books.

Interesting. Amazon is a bit unpredictable with pricing. The advantage of the digital edition is that you will get updates whenever we change something. We've done that for the past 1.5 years with the Functional Swift book =).

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Post by dan1234 »

chriseidhof wrote: post #15
dan1234 wrote: post #9

In the UK, at least, it's cheaper the buy the paperback book (£27.32) than the digital edition ($46.80; ~£32.50). Presumably this is because VAT is charged on ebooks but not on physical books.

Interesting. Amazon is a bit unpredictable with pricing. The advantage of the digital edition is that you will get updates whenever we change something. We've done that for the past 1.5 years with the Functional Swift book =).

That is quite an advantage, especially given how quickly Swift is being developed!

Re: Show HN: Advanced Swift

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Post by epaga »

I'd highly recommend getting the bundle with Core Data - I read Core Data a month ago, and it was, without exaggeration, the most practically helpful programming book I have ever read. The sample project and explanations are saving me days if not weeks of learning things "the hard way". Huge props to the authors.

Re: Show HN: Advanced Swift

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Post by floriankugler »

epaga wrote: post #17

I'd highly recommend getting the bundle with Core Data - I read Core Data a month ago, and it was, without exaggeration, the most practically helpful programming book I have ever read. The sample project and explanations are saving me days if not weeks of learning things "the hard way". Huge props to the authors.

Thanks for the kind words – glad it was helpful to you!
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