Swift 4 - Learn to Code with Apple's New Language (Udemy.com)

Nick Walter has an energetic persona, and his methods of teaching are very well thought-out. Too often, I've seen programming courses that make huge leaps from section to section, but Nick is very careful to carry everything forward and restate important things to make sure you catch them. I feel very confident after taking this course, and will pursue his other Swift courses.

This is not a thorough introduction to programming, nor an in-depth tutorial on Swift. I would only recommend this course for the person who has already taken a tutorial in programming, and just wants to investigate Swift to see what it’s about. It's more like an overview tutorial, where concepts are quickly introduced and then he moves onto the next subject. However, the instructor seems to get several minor things wrong, including coding style in some cases, and it would seem important to teach newbies proper style - examples are certainly available on Apple's reference site. Examples of strange recommendations: “I recommend vars, because the user can change them.” No - Xcode will actually remind you to use "let" whenever you can, so that your constant isn’t accidentally changed - so constants are actually recommended except for when you need to change the value. He often uses incorrect code examples, then says never mind. The lessons seem like they’re improvised, and he only used one take. The discussion on structs, for example, comes to a halt when he simply can’t explain the difference between a Class and a Struct. Would it have taken too long to first consult Apple’s reference page, then convey that info in the lesson, so that there would be technical accuracy? This is borderline laziness. Also, there are a number of times where he's simply waiting for his code to compile, and doesn't seem to know what to do. Why not edit your videos down to make them more time-efficient. The course videos have the instructor in it the whole time. He does this well, but it's just a distraction. I prefer other courses where they're simply showing the screen with code on it, or using a slide-presentation-type interface. The number of separate videos is overkill - lots of Intros and Outros are used. In fact, he constantly introduces the outro at the end of each lesson: “Ok, we’ll let’s go ahead and go to the outro…”. What? Why? Just say what you need to say in the lesson then do periodic reviews in separate videos when necessary. I'm sorry to be so critical. The instructor genuinely seems like an enjoyable person - but he really needs to polish the significant rough edges off of this course.

Nick is an excellent teacher. Here is what I like about his course: - He steps you through the core essentials of Swift, step-by-step. - His explanations are very clear and to the point. - He moves at a slower pace, which is perfect for those who are new to programming. I actually purchased a second copy of this course and gifted it to a family member. What needs improved: - 3/4th of the course is superb (with current content), but the last 1/4th is composed of older, aging videos that don't really apply to today's version of Xcode. I ended up skipping this section, as I need to learn today's current materials -- and not something that's of the "dead", extinct past. Overall, it's a fantastic course and it will give you the core essentials of Swift. Now, I'm off to learn Xcode iOS app development! :-) Thank you, Nick!

This instructor makes learning Swift Code fun and easy!! He explains everything in a way that you can easily understand everything that he is talking about. I have tried learning Swift on my own before I found this instructor, and I was getting nowhere. Once I found his lectures, I understood Swift so much more clearly!!

This is a great course for students who want to learn the fundamentals of Swift and why certain code works in certain situations and not others. I've found that other courses merely say, "Here's the code. Type it in." Nick does an excellent job not only teaching what the correct code is but also what the incorrect code is as well. As a teacher myself, I know that it's just as important to learn why something *doesn't* work as it is to learn why something does work.

I really liked tying Swift to specific tasks such as iOS programming. Other classes seem to think that you can use Swift in isolation to iOS or Mac OS X programming, which you really can't. There's no point in learning Swift without an application. A couple of things I'd change. I think that the teacher needs to make sure that what he's going to do is going to work. Although I agree that showing students that programmers can make mistakes, there were too many. Verify that the projects are going to work before filming. Lastly, in the Emoji Dictionary, rather than using a string of if statements to identify the labels for the emojis, it would have been much better to create an array of tuples where the first element was the emoji and the second was the description, e.g. [("????", "Smiley face"), ("????", "Cat")]. This way you can just refer to the same element of the array and reference either the first or second part of the tuple for the emoji or label.

Best course choice I've made. This man can explain something difficult so well and structured that it doesn't feel like I'm constantly having headaches figuring things out like what he said, how he meant something or what he did on screen but just listen to the clear explanation, writing along the code with him and doing the challenges at the end of almost every video. Big Kudos my friend!

This was a great course to get you started using Swift 4. If your interested in iOS programming and don't know where to start, I recommend this course. Nick is fun and engaging and does a great job explaining things in a simplistic manner for any level programmer to understand.

Though I am not a rank beginner in Swift (or Objective C for that matter), I am far from an experienced developer. The early lectures on the basics are acting as a useful review for me, and the stepwise approach very nicely fulfills my learning expectations and entices me for what is to come in the more advanced sections of the course.

I've taken courses from Nick before and he is great at teaching you from the pure beginner phase. In the last class he talked more about structs, functions, do while loops, etc. Still a good beginner class though and easy to understand. Good update to learn about what's new in Swift 4 but I just want to learn more because it is so easy to learn from Nick/Rick.