Josh's Swift Journey

All signed up! It's actually through LinkedIn - a site I've never needed to use before. But all of the content of Lynda is on there; I have it free for a month, then decide if I want to continue it! If I do, it is either £15 a month for an annual subscription, or £25 for the monthly. I'm thinking annual, as there is new content all the time added from Lynda! So, exiting stuff! I'm naturally going to start with the 'Swift 5 Essential' course. Where else! So the perfect time to consolidate what I know (again!!) but with the Swift 5 updates all in mind. I need to go through this, as well as any other 'beginner' level courses. Let's go for it! Start Time - 13:28 Introduction OK, this is not a programming fundamental course. Good! I am not brand new to programming and don't need to go further back than this. So it is not for complete novices basically. Good, all on playgrounds first, which is what I need! 1. Getting Started Swift is Compil...

Cool! Now I have some closure (pun unintended!) on Nick's last, very complex, challenge, I am moving on with 'what's new in Swift 5'... Start Time - 13:15 This will be very recent information. ABI Stability ABI is how Swift interacts with the computer. What are the benefits here? Every Swift app (whatever the device is) it comes with a run time with whatever Swift version you have Now, with S5 and ABI stability, any device will already have Swift there so this will shrink app sizes. Frameworks in Swift also shrink in size, app load times reducing...cool! As you'll have different versions of Swift on different apps etc. it will now speed things up. Stability part - From Swift 1 to 2 there were MASSIVE changes. Each new Swift has resulted in small changes. This is good news as it means you don't have to RELEARN the language! Cool! This is also great as you can go ahead with using what you know with Swift 5, knowing it's not going to change so m...