To celebrate the end of 2014, we’re pleased to present the most-viewed Swift videos from the Swift Language User Group (SLUG) Meetup in San Francisco.
Sit back, relax and enjoy these audience favorites!
Chris Eidhof
Creator of objc.io and Functional Programming in Swift
Functional Programming in Swift — You may already know how to solve a problem with OOP, but Swift makes it easy and convenient to use functional programming. In fact, some problems may even be easier to solve this way!
Natasha Murashev
iOS Engineer at Capital One and blogger at Natasha The Robot
Building TableViews in Swift & iOS8 — TableViews are the foundation of many iOS applications; Swift provides several unexplored patterns for approaching them. This talk covers not only the basics of TableViews, but also how to apply “Swift thinking” when approaching them in iOS8.
Keith Smiley
Cocoa Developer at thoughtbot
Swift Thinking — This talk opens with a brief introduction to Swift, followed by a deep dive into key features, including operator overloading & JSON parsing.
Jonathan Blocksom
iOS Developer at Capital One
Swift and Objective-C: Best Friends Forever? — Swift was not designed in a vacuum; working with the rich history of Objective-C frameworks was a critical part of the design.This talk covers how you can work with both languages in one project, including what works well and common pitfalls.
Austin Zheng
Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn
Lessons Learned Building “2048” in Swift — This talk is based on Austin’s experience porting the game 2048 from Objective-C into Swift. He covers concepts essential to building games, including the backing store, game logic, and views.
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