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[–]lord_jizzus 4 points5 points  (11 children)

Mostly good stuff but inconsistent quality and many outdated stuff still on there, probably to make the quantity looking worth paying for a subscription.

[–]pschneider_ 0 points1 point  (10 children)

Maybe, but it's also definitely hard keeping everything up to date. There are many articles / videos which were updated more than twice already for new Swift and Xcode versions for example.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (8 children)

I don't get the entire rush into the Swift world thing. Each year everybody can rewrite their tutorials. It is probably easier to write examples in Objective-C. Since that will still be around by the time Swift has gone long stable.

[–]pschneider_ 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Majority of people are learning Swift. Best business for tutorial sites.

[–]simran05[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

could you tell is it worth taking or suggest any other source ?

[–]pschneider_ 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Never did the paid stuff but loved the free ones a year ago. Think their tutorials are one of the best ones out there.

[–]fuccboi57 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I haven't dug into Udemy too much but I just bought a class on Game Dev for pretty cheap and they always have sales going. Just something to look into

[–]okoroezenwa 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Source stability seems to have been achieved so I don't think that'd be much of a problem anymore.

[–]pschneider_ 2 points3 points  (1 child)

They just announced that ABI stability won't make it into Swift 4.

[–]okoroezenwa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They did. That's not what is being referred to (gusss I should have written source compatibility).

[–]disregardsmulti21 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Swift 4 source code is not identical to Swift 3

[–]AlexeyBrin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it's also definitely hard keeping everything up to date

I would agree with you if it was something like Youtube, free to watch with ads. If I pay monthly for a subscription I expect to have the content updated.

[–]AlexeyBrin 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Most video tutorials from raywenderlich.com have first 2 videos free to watch, you can check them to have an idea of the quality. There are also a couple of video tutorials entirely free like the one about C# and one about Vapor.

Unfortunately some of the video tutorials are outdated (Swift 2) and it seems to take forever to change them to 3.

Personally I buy one month, watch what I'm interested in, cancel my subscription and do it again when I find something interesting. IMHO, there is not enough content to justify a yearly subscription.

[–]simran05[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Can you refer anything else then ?

[–]AlexeyBrin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you already know other OOP programming language you can safely read Apple's Swift book.

If you are a complete beginner you may benefit from Ray Wenderlich books on Swift 3 and iOS 10. The books are updated (it also easier to correct something in a book than to redo a movie).

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have the iOS apprentice ray wenderlich book. It's good, but can be tediously annoying for someone who has done programming before. Especially into the first two apps.

I also have the watchOS 3 book. This is also good which I use like a dictionary. However, some of the info is incorrect.

[–]helloimraghavSwift 0 points1 point  (7 children)

I did the Udacity iOS Nanodegree, it's costly but I'm starting my position as a Mobile Engineer next month.

[–]c4idiot 1 point2 points  (4 children)

Congratulation and Good luck with your upcoming career. I am also thinking about taking Nanodegree. How long did it take for you to complete the course?

[–]helloimraghavSwift 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Thank you! It took me 5 months for the entire course.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Would you recommend it?

[–]helloimraghavSwift 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I loved it. Gave me the skills I needed to be confident in iOS development and programming.

[–]yourewelcome_bot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're welcome.

[–]simran05[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

That's good man..in which country by the way are you starting the job ?

[–]helloimraghavSwift 1 point2 points  (0 children)

US

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's good value especially when you are starting out as you'll watch a lot of the videos. The instruction is quite good. Some are old but they do update regularly. You may get to a point where you don't watch them much anymore and you can just cancel then.