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...
I take a look at the Swift Over Coffee podcast, hosted by Paul Hudson and Erica Sadun, which covers Swift and iOS development news, weekly topics, and listener questions from Twitter. Despite running for only two seasons, in 2019 and 2020, it’s still worthwhile content for a beginning developer...
A short recommendation of the Fireside Swift podcast, an informal iOS development show where the hosts discuss a Swift topic each week. I prefer the early two-host episodes for getting to the topic faster and find the discussions well suited to listeners who already know other languages...
While looking for Swift fundamentals podcasts, I came across the community-maintained awesome-ios list on GitHub. It includes several podcasts I hadn’t encountered before, which I plan to check out...
Swift Playgrounds gets daily use in my workflow switching between iPad and MacBook, and I marvel that a tool aimed at education scales up to commercial-level app production. I also cover a 2017 iPad Pros podcast episode about the launch of Playgrounds 4, which focused on the iPad as a serious development tool, and my concern that making Playgrounds more like Xcode could make it less approachable for children...
