Swift Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

Complete book, with a whole bunch of examples

This book has the feel of a high school/college textbook, and I found its explanations of the Swift language well written.It only has 2 chapters dealing with SwiftUI and iOS, though, so if you're looking for something focusing on that, as I was, this isn't it. It makes use of XCode's Playground and Command Line Tool (not to be confused with the CLI application Terminal that's installed on all MacOSs) almost exclusively, keeping the clutter to a minimum.Despite lacking SwiftUI, the rest of the book is such great reference material for the vast amount of the concepts, types, functions, what-have-yous of the Swift language, I'm seriously considering buying the Kindle version as a (more understandable) replacement for the oftentimes dense Swift Programming Language written by Apple.Although it won't guide you while making simple apps, I would absolutely recommend this as THE first book with which you should start your journey into Swift.

This is a good book for starting to learn Swift.However I thought it needed more chapters in Swift UI especially as this seems to be the future of this language.

I am just going through it now. I recommend this for beginner as well as experts programmer. I am in programming field since last 15 years and now using tis book to learn swift. I already developed some apps but my concept was not clear about closures etc and i hope this book will help me to get those concept clear. Will give my another ev view after year again :)

The first part of the book teaches you the basics of Swift without teaching you the language in the context of any possible practical application. From Part five, laughably called "Advanced Swift", the usefulness of the book, plunges steeply downhill.After reading the useful parts of the book (the first two thirds) I've decided that not only is it not worth the money, but I won't ever be buying a Big Nerd Ranch book again.I've been in IT for over 3 decades and I know what good, useful programming language teaching books should contain. This is not one of those books.