[nfbcs] How do I learn Swift?

[Amanda Lacy]

Hi Mike!

I just got Swift Playgrounds but I'm having issues with it. My
character gets stuck in the first "learn to code" game. When this
happens, I repeatedly issue the command turnLeft() and each time it
reports that my char is facing south. I can't move and have to start
the game over.

I can ask my employer to pay for a few hours of training if I need to,
but I'm not sure I need it yet.

I've now read a lot of Swift code examples but how do I now write and
run programs? XCode is a big confusing IDE. Can I just write them in
emacs or whatever and run commands from the shell?

On 4/30/18, Michael Doise <mikedoise at icloud.com> wrote:
> Hi Amanda, swift playgrounds for iPad is a good place to start, but
> iAccessibility has a great Swift learning course at
> https://iaccessibility.net/training.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Apr 30, 2018, at 11:47 AM, Amanda Lacy via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> At work we're going to rewrite the app I've been testing in Swift.
>> Last time I tried learning Swift I got trapped in a GUI somewhere in
>> XCode. This happened in the very first beginner Swift exercise I found
>> on the Apple site. How can I avoid as much of that as possible and
>> focus on code? thanks.
>>
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