what is the best beginner training for learning swift?
Asked on 2024-07-30
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For beginners looking to learn Swift, there are several excellent resources and sessions from WWDC that can help you get started:
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A Swift Tour: Explore Swift’s features and design:
- This session provides a comprehensive introduction to Swift, covering its core features and design principles. It includes practical examples and demonstrations, making it a great starting point for beginners.
- A Swift Tour: Explore Swift’s features and design (00:00:00)
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SwiftUI essentials:
- This session introduces SwiftUI, Apple's declarative user interface framework. It covers the basics of building apps with SwiftUI and explains how to take advantage of its features across all Apple platforms.
- SwiftUI essentials (00:00:00)
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Platforms State of the Union:
- This session provides an overview of Swift and SwiftUI, highlighting their ease of use and powerful features. It’s a good session to understand the broader context and benefits of using Swift and SwiftUI for app development.
- Platforms State of the Union (00:27:44)
Additionally, you can follow along with the SwiftUI tutorials available in the documentation, which guide you through building different apps step-by-step. These tutorials are designed to help beginners get hands-on experience with Swift and SwiftUI.
By starting with these sessions and tutorials, you'll gain a solid foundation in Swift and SwiftUI, enabling you to build your first app or incorporate SwiftUI into an existing project. Happy coding!

What’s new in Swift
Join us for an update on Swift. We’ll briefly go through a history of Swift over the past decade, and show you how the community has grown through workgroups, expanded the package ecosystem, and increased platform support. We’ll introduce you to a new language mode that achieves data-race safety by default, and a language subset that lets you run Swift on highly constrained systems. We’ll also explore some language updates including noncopyable types, typed throws, and improved C++ interoperability.

Platforms State of the Union
Discover the newest advancements on Apple platforms.

A Swift Tour: Explore Swift’s features and design
Learn the essential features and design philosophy of the Swift programming language. We’ll explore how to model data, handle errors, use protocols, write concurrent code, and more while building up a Swift package that has a library, an HTTP server, and a command line client. Whether you’re just beginning your Swift journey or have been with us from the start, this talk will help you get the most out of the language.