{"id":152,"date":"2014-10-06T02:17:22","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T02:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joshdonlan.com\/?p=152"},"modified":"2014-10-06T03:07:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T03:07:41","slug":"ios-and-swift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joshdonlan.com\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"iOS and Swift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After many years of avoiding iOS because of the atrocity that I felt was Objective C, Swift gives me new hope for the platform.  I have decided to back a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/paulsolt\/31-days-make-iphone-apps-and-games-with-swift-for\" title=\"Kickstarter project\" target=\"_blank\">Kickstarter project<\/a> to get myself up to speed.  Going through the intro content gives me hope that I&#8217;ll learn enough of the language to get off the ground to a point where I can teach myself whatever is left as I&#8217;ve done with other languages in the past.  So far, Swift looks to be much more promising than Objective C and follow a more traditional programming structure &#8211; so that&#8217;s exciting.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll be sure to post updates as I progress through the content.  As of now, it seems the presenter shares a very similar style to myself both in presentation technique and the balance between casual and professional. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After many years of avoiding iOS because of the atrocity that I felt was Objective C, Swift gives me new hope for the platform. I have decided to back a Kickstarter project to get myself up to speed. Going through the intro content gives me hope that I&#8217;ll learn enough of the language to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshdonlan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshdonlan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshdonlan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshdonlan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshdonlan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/joshdonlan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"https:\/\/joshdonlan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshdonlan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshdonlan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshdonlan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshdonlan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}