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Published inOct 2016
Reading LevelIntermediate
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781786469632
Edition1st Edition
Languages
Swift
Tools
Swift Playgrounds
Concepts
iOS Development
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Keith Elliott
Keith Elliott
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Keith Elliott

Keith Elliott is a multitalented professional with unique business and technology experience spanning telecommunications, real estate investment banking, and capital markets. His work is driven simply by problems that need solutions, whether the problem is as simple as his wifes request for a custom to-do list or as complex as interest rate derivatives and foreign exchange hedging. He graduated with an MBA from Columbia Business School with an emphasis in entrepreneurship and an undergraduate degree from Georgia Institute of Technology with a bachelor's in computer engineering. Keith's own company, GittieLabs LLC, works with startups to provide technology solutions. His vision is to equip students with the real-life experience necessary to succeed in startup and corporate life. You can find his blog on the GittieLabs LLC website, www.gittie.com. On nights and weekends, Keith can be found spending time with his family, riding motorcycles with his lovely wife, watching football, and rewatching countless hours of WWDC videos.
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Swift 3 on Mac

To get up and going on a Mac, you simply need to choose the type of Swift toolchain you want to develop against. You can choose a version from the Download section. Swift on a Mac is included with Xcode, making it really easy to get started. Swift 3 requires you to have macOS 10.11.5 (El Capitan) or later and Xcode 8. Let's walk through the steps together and install Swift 3 on a Mac.

  1. Download a toolchain - Grab the latest Swift 3 release or preview candidate from the downloads page on https://swift.org/. Xcode is created and maintained by Apple, selecting a release to download from https://swift.org/ will take you to Apple's downloads section on their developer portal.

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    An Xcode toolchain is a special binary with a toolchain extension that includes Xcode and all of the tools and libraries that make up Swift (LLVM, LLDB, REPL, and other tools) all targeted at a specific Swift version. You can think of a toolchain as a bundled development environment that you install and...

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Published in: Oct 2016Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781786469632
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Keith Elliott

Keith Elliott is a multitalented professional with unique business and technology experience spanning telecommunications, real estate investment banking, and capital markets. His work is driven simply by problems that need solutions, whether the problem is as simple as his wifes request for a custom to-do list or as complex as interest rate derivatives and foreign exchange hedging. He graduated with an MBA from Columbia Business School with an emphasis in entrepreneurship and an undergraduate degree from Georgia Institute of Technology with a bachelor's in computer engineering. Keith's own company, GittieLabs LLC, works with startups to provide technology solutions. His vision is to equip students with the real-life experience necessary to succeed in startup and corporate life. You can find his blog on the GittieLabs LLC website, www.gittie.com. On nights and weekends, Keith can be found spending time with his family, riding motorcycles with his lovely wife, watching football, and rewatching countless hours of WWDC videos.
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