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Play by Play: Software Development in Swift - Beyond IOS

by Stephen Haunts and Lars Klint

In this course, you’ll learn what Swift is and what technologies exist around Swift to make it a full-featured client and server development language.

What you'll learn

Play by Play is a series in which top technologists work through a problem in real time, unrehearsed and unscripted. In this course, Play by Play: Software Development in Swift - Beyond IOS, Stephen Haunts and Lars Klint explore the swift development landscape and look at some of the options available for developing server side software. Learn the history of Swift, four different server-side libraries for creating API’s, and a tour of the Swift language. By the end of this course, you’ll have a basic understanding of what the Swift Language looks like and how it can be used to develop software that lives on the server.

About the authors

Stephen Haunts is an experienced Software Developer and Leader who has worked across multiple business domains including Computer Games, Finance, and Healthcare Retail and Distribution. Stephen has worked in languages ranging from Assembler, various forms of BASIC, to C and C++, and then finding his love of C# and .NET. Stephen also runs a Software Development and Leadership blog called {Coding in the Trenches} which can be read at http://www.stephenhaunts.com . Stephen also runs a small music ... more

Lars is a Principal Magician with Arkahna, author, trainer, Microsoft MVP, community leader, aspiring Microsoft Azure expert and part time classic car collector. He is heavily involved in the space of cloud computing services, especially Azure, and is a published author, solution architect and writer for numerous publications. He has been a part of the software development community for the past 20 years and co-organises the DDD Melbourne community conference, organises developer events with Mic... more

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