iOS 13 Programming for Beginners - Fourth Edition 4th ed. Edition

This is a great book with a meaty project to work through. Everything in the book works EXCEPT the places it wants you to use the Editor Assistant to establish outlets. Apparently something broke between XCode version 11.2.1 used in the book and the current 11.6 release, in every case the assistant displays nothing instead of the class it is supposed to. This gave me the opportunity to figure out how to do it programmatically, but not every beginner might enjoy that. It would be good to have the manual steps in the book in the event the tooling is broken.But that doesn’t detract from the fact this is an excellent book! It is probably the best intro/ beginning book I have encountered in my 40 years of programming.

I was turned off this book at first because it started with basic programming. If you know how to code, just skip the beginning and any other parts that are redundant. It is a very complete book. Work through the projects to learn the XCode framework. They are more useful than some other books. Some places are vague, ut it generally very detailed

If this book fits your learning style it may be a good book but it is not working for me (I'm on Chapter 23 of 27 so I'm most of the way through.The book takes you through creating a rather complex app to teach you to code.The problem I had is the book tells you what to type or click and drag etc but does not explain WHY you are doing it. I would have preferred stand-alone examples of each topic with an explanation of what's going on. In this book you are essentially 'Watching' the author create an app but with little explanation about the code. The two best things about this book are you can download the app's code in it's final state for each chapter in case you mistype something along the way. And second there is a YouTube video for each chapter showing the author typing and implementing everything which is helpful if the description in the book is unclear about what to do. In a nutshell, simple examples focused on each coding topic would have taught the topics much better than mixing them all into the creation of a single large app.

The book quickly turned into a series of typing exercises, focussed on reproducing the authors work rather than on building knowledge.I would highly recommend purchasing the 'iOS 13 Programming Fundamentals with Swift: Swift, Xcode, and Cocoa Basics' as an alternative. The Big Nerd book takes the time to explain why a pattern is being used and then goes through how to implement. They also have challenges at the end of each chapter that are key to understanding the concepts and how to use the full toolset and online documentation

I received quickly. it looks like a good book. I have not read all of it but as an experienced developer, it is more for beginners but still gives enough information to get you going.

As a beginner in the native iOS world, knowing nothing about Swift, I find this book helpful to learn by doing. Expect some initial struggle to understand what’s going on but everything will make sense at the end. I recommend this book for a jump start.

The book is now obsolete after the new updates to Xcode!

Great book! I work in IT, but have no experience creating apps. I am able to complete all of the steps outlined in each chapter. The examples are very helpful, and the text thoroughly covers the important concepts.