With few current podcasts focused on learning Swift, I have been working through older episodes of shows like Fireside Swift and Swift Over Coffee, enjoying hearing past predictions such as Paul Hudson’s doubts about an iPad-capable Xcode. I compare the two seasons of Swift Over Coffee, finding co-host Sean Allen’s beginner questions more useful than the more expert pairing with Erica Sadun, despite her deep Swift knowledge...
While working through cs193p homework, I praise the Swift book’s clear, step-by-step explanation of closures, and by coincidence encounter the same topic twice more that day in a Fireside Swift podcast episode and an iOS Academy video. The post also notes that closures can be challenging without experience passing around function pointers or doing multithreaded programming, and that Swift’s ability to cut the syntax down to very little takes getting used to...
