iOS 8 for Programmers: An App-Driven Approach with Swift (Deitel Developer Series Book 1)

If you're new to software development, you may find it challenging. Being an experienced developer, it was helpful that this book skipped all the intro development stuff. Some books go way too far in to concepts on Computer Science.Some of the examples failed to work properly on the first go-round, but it turned out to be my fault. For example, in the Tip Calculator app, if you don't align the labels and text fields perfectly, the auto constraints tool may fail to set the constraints and everything populates off the screen. That baffled me for a good 30 minutes and could easily kill someone's experience. It would be nice if there were tips/warnings for these little intricacies.Another annoyance, the code samples in the book had incorrect references to figures. And some of the code sample references omitted code that was pre-populated by Xcode. I couldn't tell if these methods were supposed to be deleted or kept.While I understand this book is teaching the basic concepts of iOS development, the majority of apps today communicate with a web service API. Yet there's really only one application that communicates with the internet through a WebView. I'm not sure why this app used a WebView. It would have been better to integrate with the API and produce tweet results in a table.Overall, I'm pretty pleased with this book. It's a great intro to programming an iOS app using Swift. I wouldn't recommend it for beginner developers or for developers looking to learn how to program in Swift. If you're an experienced developer, go learn the basics of Swift using online resources, then tackle this book!

Best xcode book yet, and I've bought a ton of them......Takes you step by step through the entire xcode interface, explaining the various menus and what they do. Each step follows a logical sequence...it waits to explain them until you need them so that explanations are explained in the context of building real apps.AND....the writer has a talent for explaining things in an understandable manner, e.g., he doesn't bring in extraneous subjects or irrelevant comments that tend to confuse the issue and that take away from the point he is trying to make. Reminds of the old TV program..."The facts and nothing but the facts maam"The example apps are built step by step and are wonderful examples to learn by. Even early on he discusses "Voice Over" and Internationalization which I seem to have missed in other books.In my estimation this is a truly wonderful xcode learning book.

Would get a five if there were not so many formatting issues in the Kindle version. Much of the steps that a reader needs to follow must be guessed at due to missing text. Example:To begin working on an app, select <a bunch of whitespace> to create a new project or <a bunch of whitespace> to open an existing project. Selecting <a bunch of whitespace> displays a sheet ...Not terribly helpful. Otherwise, I like the content and the pace at which it is delivered, and love the app driven approach.

This book was very helpful in getting to know the Swift language and the new xCode IDE. After working through this book I feel like I am ready for more advanced texts, and I know enough to try making some simple apps on my own.This book might be hard on people who do not already know another programming language. Similarly it might be too light for a very advanced programmer. But for everyone in the middle, it's a good stepping stone into Swift for iOS.

I bought this book with big hopes and regret so much now.Firstly, projects in this book felt repetitive. The author spent long chapters repeating himself while failed to guide the user with good programming convention. In the end reader follows all instructions without understanding the reasoning for doing so. One example, the Layout was mentioned multiple times in different projects, but author kept repeating same steps for each projects without providing any justification or 'teaching'. That's what I felt for the entire book.In addition, the author seems really to be too proud for the few positive reviews he got from big publishers, and used that excuse to shield negative feedbacks.

Paul Deitel has been doing this for longer than is perhaps good for a person, but he is also very good at it. i trust Paul -- his intelligence and his insights into the development process, and understanding how to teach complex abstractions in a very concrete way. i couldn't recommend this book any higher.

Some experience with other programming languages would be helpful for the reader to have. Overall, good overview of iOS 8 and Swift.

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Nice introduction to swift. Coming from the knowledge of objective c, I found this book very useful. Each chapter covers a specific task/goal functionality wise, which is nice way of learning.

A very good book, I'm almost going through it like a novel. Well written, accurate and fun.

Even if the book covers different aspect of iOS devices and environment and each app project clearly define what to learn, the core explanation of creating each part of the app is not well explained. Codes are written without deep explanation on 'why'. This book requires a minimum of knowledge and maybe external source of info.

In Amerika Platz 1 der Swift Bücher (Stand März 2015), aber Achtung! Dieses Buch ist nichts für Anfänger, man sollte schon programmiert haben und man sollte auf jeden Fall das Swift Buch von Apple schon gelesen (und verstanden) haben.

Book is Ok . till 3-4 chapters.Chapters have the projects but some are not properly managed.feels like just copying pasting..