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This book will teach you how to use Swift to apply functional programming techniques to your iOS or OS X projects. These techniques complement object-oriented programming that most Objective-C developers will already be familiar with, providing you with a valuable new tool in your developer's toolbox. We will start by taking a look at Swift's new language features, such as
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It's a pleasant book to read.
It does a couple of cool things, really:
* It walks the reader through the basic ideas found in most functional programming literature.
* It provides a nice example of functions-as-data that later gets augmented to actual-data-as-data
* It teaches you how to do an implementation of a simple QuickCheck-like library
* Must more importantly (and hence why I really liked this book!), it teaches you how to implement a small parser combinators library. Parser combinators are r ...more
It does a couple of cool things, really:
* It walks the reader through the basic ideas found in most functional programming literature.
* It provides a nice example of functions-as-data that later gets augmented to actual-data-as-data
* It teaches you how to do an implementation of a simple QuickCheck-like library
* Must more importantly (and hence why I really liked this book!), it teaches you how to implement a small parser combinators library. Parser combinators are r ...more
The introductory chapter mentions that "you should be comfortable reading Swift programs…" and yet the first half of the book covers absolute Swift basics. The later chapters is where the meat is. Still I learned something from this book and the writing style, as with all objc.io books, is good.
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Okayish book that suffers from not so practical examples.
For someone not directly familiar with functional programming the book gets a bit dense toward the end. Not that the code isn't clear, it is, but some logical leaps are not immediately evident.
Still, liked it a lot. It was also recently updated for the latest Swift version. ...more
Still, liked it a lot. It was also recently updated for the latest Swift version. ...more
I'm a big fan of the objc.io guys. When I saw that they've updated for Swift 3, I had to give it another read. I can't stress enough what a great resource they are and how helpful their articles, books, and videos are.
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Impeccable way to make one understand how swift is amazing and interesting.
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