Basic tutorial advice?

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Created Apr ’17

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Hi all - I've recently started learning Swift 3 - first time coding so I'm pretty much in the dark.

I'm currently working through Team Treehouse's Swift course to get a decent introducton to Swift. While it's good at taking me through things step-by-step I also want to be able to work on some simple apps I have ideas for. Theory is fine but there's no subsitute for getting stuck in and having an end goal to work towards.

First off, as part of my end goal I need to learn the basics of actions and I'm guessing spriteKit etc also - something that will allow me to move a basic sprite across a screen - I've downloaded a couple of pdf books plus Apple's own Swift documentation and I've found a couple of tutorials on YouTube but they're using Swift 2.

Can anyone recommend a place to start for a complete beginner, perhaps point to some up-to-date tutorials and how to implement actions etc inXcode?

Thanks all. 🙂

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mtngoatjoe OP

Jun ’17

I've been working throught this https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Swift/Conceptual/Swift_Programming_Language/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40014097-CH3-ID0

I took a couple programming classes MANY years ago, and I've found this walkthrough very easy to follow.

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iPad_dev OP

Jul ’17

for noobs,

watch the youtube video series 'hacking with swift' by paul hudson. it's much better than the stanford class. you'll actually be able to do many things that stanford class doesn't even talk about.

or brian advent on youtube does a decent job but he's a bit flakey sometimes and doesn't go into too much detail and uses too many 3rd party apps for my liking but he knows his stuff.

stanford class is too superficial, you get just enough knowledge to be confused, "swift view from 40,000ft",

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deadworlds OP

Jul ’17

Another great resource is apples App development book available in iBooks for FREE. Each chapter covers a feature of swift while also mixing in some stuff about the iOS SDK. The end of each section has you work through a playground file. The end of each chapter has you work on a project. They playgrounds and chapters get more complicated as you continue reading the book. I’m a computer science student and I found this book to be one of the best for learning swift and iOS SDK.

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