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    I learnt swift first and this just seems extremely long . Can't i just do numbers.count to find out the length

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    I understand the concept and how it works, but why is this important to learn, when will it be used in programs and why?

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  • Kian Akhavan
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    Why does Doug keep referring to it a 'C'. Isn't the tutorial on Objective C?

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  • Mike Atkinson
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    What is Placeholder "%ld" ?

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    Forwarding trough tutorial movies resulting in infinite loops as is video is not playable anymore... chrome

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    How is the sizeof(float) 4 bytes?

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  • Jacob Savage
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    Why does a float consume 4 bytes?

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    Array Challenge part 3 problems

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