iOS 14 Programming Fundamentals with Swift: Swift, Xcode, and Cocoa Basics

Arrived damaged.

I bought PDF copies of Fundamentals and the companion book; have been reading the former. While it's still early days, these books so far seem among the clearer and more comprehensive of the resources I have.

I am about 76% through reading this book on O'Reilly Online Learning. I will probably buy a hard copy for my library. This is the first of two books on the subject. It covers fundamentals, and the second covers deeper features. It is thorough in its treatment of programming in Swift 5.3 for iOS 14. That means that it is fully up to date at the time of my review.Matt Neuberg writes with a software developer's motivation, giving plenty of why to justify the what and the how. He warns from his own experience about potential hiccups in the development process, including distribution for testing and release. He then prescribes best practices, saving the reader both grief and wasted time. The book is surprisingly free of misspellings and misstatements, showing the care the author gave to it.I am pleased to recommend this book as a foundation for Swift development.

I use to buy every new edition of the book, fo very simple reason, it covers all the news comming with new IOS version. As a beginner few years back this book let me understand in deep how the mechanisms behind view controllers worked. Looking for solutions at Git or Google is not the same as having a solid reference in one place. Apple original documentation is very academic and sure you use it for reference. However I found in the book lot of functions and properties I never heard of. I would say, that Matt’s book showed me the way to enter IOS world and to understand it deeply. Thank you Matt for the efforts.

You don't know swift and IOS until you read Matt's books.The work involved in these books is TITANESQUE. Matt's knowledge is inhuman.There is not a more thorough teaching of Apple developper ecosystem than Matt's work. What I like also is general advice on coding int he context of Swift and IOS frameworks.Some things that could be improved:-Topics order: closures before simple types... c'mon...- Simpler examples. Sometimes examples are a bit complicated, in particular when the author refers to his own code, instead of the 'silly' examples.- There could be more diagrams, illustrations...