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Learn Swift

A curated list of helpful resources to learn Swift. Tutorials, Code Samples, References and more!

Beginner

Learn Swift Online Course (teamtreehouse.com*)
A Swift Tour (apple.com)
Swift for iOS Developers (pluralsight.com*)
Start Developing iOS Apps (Swift) (apple.com)
Developing iOS Apps Using Swift: Part 1
- Part 2
- Part 3 (Best Practices)
- Part 4 (Adding Interactions)
- Part 5 (Async image loading and caching)
- Part 6 (Interaction with multiple views)
- Part 7 (Animations, Audio, and Custom Table View Cells) (jamesonquave.com)
The Updated Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Swift (teamtreehouse.com*)
Learn Swift 4 for Beginners (2018) (codewithchris.com)
Learn Swift for Beginners (2018) (youtube.com)
Swift Classes: Part 1 (weheartswift.com)
iOS Swift Tutorial: From Sketch Design to Real App (youtube.com)
iOS Tutorial: How to make an iPhone App (Xcode 9, Swift 4, iOS 12) (youtube.com)
[Playlist] Swift Programming: Introduction (youtube.com)

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Intermediate

iOS 11 & Swift 4: From Beginner to Paid Professional™ (udemy.com*)
Intermediate Swift - Apple WWDC 2014 (youtube.com)
Single-file Cocoa application with Swift (czak.pl)
Higher Order Function and its uses in Swift 4 (medium.com)
9 Open Source Swift UI Libraries For iOS App Development (medium.mybridge.co)
Swift optionals explained simply (hackernoon.com)
Replicating Twitter’s bird zoom startup animation (in Swift!) (iosdevtips.co)
Basic UIView Animation Tutorial: Getting Started (raywenderlich.com)
Core Image Tutorial: Getting Started (raywenderlich.com)
Enums, Pattern Matching & Generics (realm.io)
Today Extension Tutorial: Getting Started (raywenderlich.com)
Sprite Kit Lessons (spritekitlessons.com)
UISplitViewController Tutorial: Getting Started (raywenderlich.com)
Prototyping iOS Animations in Swift: Part 1
- Animations in Swift: Part 2 (mathewsanders.com)
IOS 11, Swift 4, Intermediate, Tutorial : How to Record and Play Audio in Swift (AVFoundation) (youtube.com)
[Playlist] Swift Programming: Intermediate (youtube.com)
theswiftdev.com - How to use the result type to handle errors in Swift 5? (theswiftdev.com)

Advanced

Swift in Depth (Pluralsight) (pluralsight.com*)
Swift for Tensorflow - The performance of graphs with the flexibility and expressivity of eager execution, with a strong focus on improved usability at every level of the stack. (tensorflow.org)
Swift Language Highlights: An Objective-C Developer’s Perspective (raywenderlich.com)
Setting up Swift and Objective-C Interoperability (medium.com)
Swift Interoperability In Depth - Apple WWDC 2014 (youtube.com)
Introduction to LLDB and the Swift REPL - Apple WWDC 2014 (youtube.com)
Size, Stride, Alignment (swiftunboxed.com)
Build a realtime geolocation app with ARKit and CoreLocation (pusher.com)

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Books

Swift Programming Series (iBooks Store) (itunes.apple.com)
Stanford University: Developing iOS 10 Apps with Swift (iTunes U) (itunes.apple.com)
Plymouth University: iOS Development in Swift (itunes.apple.com)
iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (amazon.com*)
Swift Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (amazon.com*)
Learning Swift: Building Apps for macOS, iOS, and Beyond (amazon.com*)

References

Introducing Swift (developer.apple.com)
NSHipster is a journal of the overlooked bits in Objective-C, Swift, and Cocoa. Updated weekly. (nshipster.com)
eBook / The Swift Book
- eBook / The Swift Programming Language (docs.swift.org)
Official Swift Blog (developer.apple.com)
Stack Overflow Questions (stackoverflow.com)
Github Trending Repos (github.com)
Swift Cheat Sheet and Quick Reference (raywenderlich.com)
Swift Cheat Sheet (github.com)
String Reference Guide (learnswiftonline.com)

Code Examples

Treehouse - Build a vending machine app in Swift (teamtreehouse.com*)
Treehouse - Build an interactive story app with Swift (teamtreehouse.com*)
Lister - A Productivity App Built in Swift (GitHub fork) (github.com)
Flappy Swift - Swift implementation of Flappy Bird (github.com)
2048 Swift - A port of iOS-2048 to Apple's new Swift language. The game is present and working, but the score screen has not been implemented, nor have the (rather useless) button-based controls. (github.com)
Swift Programming Language Playground - Working through the Swift Programming Language iBook (github.com)
Timesaver - Minimalist clock screensaver for OS X built with Apple's, new programming language, Swift (github.com)
Swift RSS Reader - An RSS reader example app written in Swift. (github.com)
The Oakland Post - The mobile companion for The Oakland Post's news website, written entirely in Swift! (github.com)

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