iOS 17 Programming for Beginners - Eighth Edition: Unlock the world of iOS Development with Swift 5.9, Xcode 15, and iOS 17 - Your Path to App Store Success

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Great for beginners

I'm almost done with the book, 2 chapters left, and I learned how to write an IOS app both ways, one using the designer interface and the other in pure code. Without this book, I would still be clueless and would have never got the kick start that I needed. The book is very hard to follow, and writing out the code examples became more and more difficult as I progressed through the book, to the point where my code didn't match up in certain spots and I had to cheat and use the GitHub code to fix my code. Without the book, I would have never learned the rules to IOS, the nomenclature of the parts or components, and the details in what is possible with storing data on a phone, or using a cloud data source. For me, I spent 5 Sundays with the book, and it would take me about 7 Sundays to complete the lessons. There are a couple of typos in the book; mistakes, and some parts are misleading in the Map section. So when I started my ambition to write a phone app, being nudged by my friends, I was going to order about 3 books, one being a Cookbook, but refrained and just ordered this one, which was the right choice after all. I'm not about to try another book to learn, and spend more time learning using this method, so I can't comment on other books on this subject, for I'm going straight to code and will start building my app next week.

Let me start off by saying I have some rudimentary programming experience and, wanting to learn Swift, this seemed like a good place to start. The book starts off easy enough. The lessons are basic and the walkthroughs are helpful. Unfortunately, when I got to chapter 6 (of 27), things started to go off the rails. There are lines of code introduced that have no explanation and, as a true beginner in Swift, are very puzzling. I followed the "for more information" links, but they only take the reader to the Apple created Swift Programming Language reference site, which is a kind of online Swift encyclopedia. And if you're a beginner looking to set your head spinning, this is the site to visit! So I guess I have to look for "more basic than beginner" literature to get up to speed, because this book lost me early on.

Love this book. It's a thick one and I highly recommend it. I started out with next to no knowledge of programming. I bought a book that showed me how to make a few quick apps but it was this book that went into extended detail to explain concepts like data types. I could say more but long reviews are annoying. I'm a beginner who gained a lot of confidence to keep at it because of this book. That's all you really need to know.