Objectives

Get started with the Swift programming language

This will not make you a Swift expert

... and this is not a comprehensive reference

In many ways, this is designed to "make you dangerous"

... and give you a place to start your own research/experiments

NOT an intro to iOS or OSX programming/APIs

Swift will NOT on its own make you a mobile developer, sorry!

Summary

Swift is...

not really an innovative language, really

still a helluvalot better than ObjC, if you ask me

Credentials

Who is this guy?

Architect, Engineering Manager/Leader, "force multiplier"

http://www.newardassociates.com

http://blogs.newardassociates.com

Sr Distinguished Engineer, Capital One

Educative (http://educative.io) Author

Performance Management for Engineering Managers

Books

Developer Relations Activity Patterns (w/Woodruff, et al; APress, forthcoming)

Professional F# 2.0 (w/Erickson, et al; Wrox, 2010)

Effective Enterprise Java (Addison-Wesley, 2004)

SSCLI Essentials (w/Stutz, et al; OReilly, 2003)

Server-Based Java Programming (Manning, 2000)