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Andrew J Wagner
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Contacted on 5 Aug 16 Andrew J Wagner is a software developer who concentrates on iOS development and backend web services. He has a degree in computer engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York. Currently, he works for a development shop based in Denver, CO named Chronos Interactive. He has experience working with and for large-scale companies and small-scale companies as well as running his own contracting and app companies. He is passionate about using computers as a creative outlet and writing software that is beautiful in implementation, functionality, and experience. When he isn't working or spending time with friends and family, he writes for his blog at http://drewag.me. I would like to thank my friends and family for being there for me as support for both my troubles and triumphs. Without their encouragement, I would not have finished this book or achieved any of the other things in my life that make me proud. An especially big thanks to my parents, Fern and Joe, for continually providing me the the tools I need to do the things I love.
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Control flow


Objective-C has many of the same control flow paradigms as Swift. We will go through each of them quickly, but before we do, let's take a look at the Objective-C equivalent of print:

var name = "Sarah"
println("Hello \(name)")
NSString *name = @"Sarah";
NSLog(@"Hello %@", name);

Instead of print, we are using a function called NSLog. Objective-C does not have string interpolation, so NSLog is a somewhat more complex solution than print. The first argument to NSLog is a string that describes the format to be printed out. This includes a placeholder for each piece of information we want to log that indicates the type it should expect. Every placeholder starts with a percent symbol. In this case, we are using an at-symbol to indicate what we are going to be substituting in a string. Every argument after the initial format will be substituted for the placeholders in the same order they are passed in. Here, this means that it will end up logging Hello Sarah just like the Swift code...

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Contacted on 5 Aug 16 Andrew J Wagner is a software developer who concentrates on iOS development and backend web services. He has a degree in computer engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York. Currently, he works for a development shop based in Denver, CO named Chronos Interactive. He has experience working with and for large-scale companies and small-scale companies as well as running his own contracting and app companies. He is passionate about using computers as a creative outlet and writing software that is beautiful in implementation, functionality, and experience. When he isn't working or spending time with friends and family, he writes for his blog at http://drewag.me. I would like to thank my friends and family for being there for me as support for both my troubles and triumphs. Without their encouragement, I would not have finished this book or achieved any of the other things in my life that make me proud. An especially big thanks to my parents, Fern and Joe, for continually providing me the the tools I need to do the things I love.
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