How I learned Swift and what I know about Swift - Part 1
Following on from my 'Brief History' post, this other retrospective is to help me make sense of what I know about Swift so far and to summarise the journey I've been on with it. Subsequent posts in this blog will involve up-to-date thoughts and reflections on my current learning of Swift. Here is how I went about learning Swift: In April 2015, I started off learning Swift with several Udemy courses, including one by Rob Percival, which was very popular and highly-rated. At first, I had the naive assumption that it would all be very straightforward and easy to pick up. It wasn't! Rob's course was great if you were confident with the language, but the halfway point I was lost. The tasks seemed to be impossible to figure out without some insider knowledge. Anyway, I supplemented that course with several others on Udemy, which helped me to learn what the basics were. From there, I found a useful site: 'WeHeartSwift', which were useful in carrying out cha...