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Posted by Tunde Adegoroye
Tunde Adegoroye
20,597 Points

Reading development doc confusion

Hi all i'm trying really hard to grasp swift but the only issue i'm having is that some of the docs for certain methods is still written in objective-c i was wondering if anyone could offer any advice on what they do to overcome this barrier when trying to figure out something in objective-c thanks for any suggestions

1 Answer

Max Hirsh
Max Hirsh
16,773 Points

Hey Tunde,

This is a great question. I've run into the same thing myself. I think the problem is that objective-C is a much older programming language, about 32 years old according to wikipedia. Swift is around 6 months to 1 year old. Because of that a lot of the documentation on APIs in objective-C has not been updated to include how to do things in swift.

I'm sometimes somewhat surprised at what swift developers have been able to figure out given the lack of documentation (maybe there's additional source material besides the xcode documentation and API reference?). I think some of the more experienced programmers have been able to apply old objective-C APIs they know in swift through trial and error.

What I've found helpful is searching online for swift tutorials or previous code on git hub that is similar to what you want to do. There still isn't much out there since swift is pretty new. A lot of the online tutorials though cover things in swift that are still in objective-C only in the docs.

Let me know if this helps, sorry for the long answer!

Tunde Adegoroye
Tunde Adegoroye
20,597 Points

This is a good answer thanks mate