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24 alternatives to The Summer of Swift

An ephemeral contest to learn Swift by doing. Contribute to realm/summer-of-swift development by creating an account on GitHub.

The Summer of Swift is a time-limited contest designed to teach Swift programming through hands-on contribution. Participants learn the language by working on the realm/summer-of-swift development project, which… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Summer of Swift launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
Developing with Swift▲310
Learn how to make iOS 8 apps in Swift, tutorials by Stanford
2015 · itunes.apple.com · its alternatives →
2
Swift Playgrounds▲378
Learn serious code on your iPad in a seriously fun way
2016 · developer.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Learn Swift▲238
2015 · books.aidanf.net · its alternatives →
4
Swifty▲411
Learn to code in Swift on iPhone & iPad
2015 · hellocode.io · its alternatives →
5
Teaching App Development with Swift▲96
A Github-hosted curriculum on Swift for teachers by Apple
2015 · swifteducation.github.io · its alternatives →
6
Swift▲271
Apple's innovative new programming language
2014 · developer.apple.com · its alternatives →
7
The Complete iOS 8 Course▲318
Learn by Building 14 Different Apps in Swift
2014 · bitfountain.io · its alternatives →
8
100 Days of Swift▲234
Learn Swift by building cool projects
2016 · samvlu.com · its alternatives →
9
IBM Swift Sandbox▲300
Write & test Swift code in your browser
2015 · swiftlang.ng.bluemix.net · its alternatives →
10
Swift Devs▲101
A community for developers and students of Swift
2014 · its alternatives →
11
The Swift Summary Book▲157
Summary of Apple's Swift language written on Playgrounds
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
12
Swift Playgrounds for iPad▲72
Learn serious code
2021 · developer.apple.com · its alternatives →
13
Swiftbites▲220
Learn how to code in swift with interactive mini lessons
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
14
Design+Code iOS▲403
Swift 4 designers. Learn to make an iOS app, from the app
2018 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
15
Short Implementation of Goroutines in Swift▲38
Short implementation of goroutines in apple swift. Contribute to billylindeman/swiftgo development by creating an account on GitHub.
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
16
Simple Pascal interpreter written in Swift▲103
Simple Swift interpreter for the Pascal language inspired by the Let’s Build A Simple Interpreter article series. - igorkulman/SwiftPascalInterpreter
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
17
Build a Lisp in Swift▲38
a custom Lisp REPL using Swifties. Contribute to codr7/swifties-repl development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
18
Swift AI▲243
A.I. and machine learning library written in Swift
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
19
Jusi▲180
AI platform for rapid launch of website & app development
2024 · jusi.me · its alternatives →
20
SwiftHub▲86
Learn, build & share about all things Swift
2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
21
LearnSwift.tips▲138
Swift Tutorials, Code Samples, References and more!
2014 · learnprogramming.tips · its alternatives →
22
Swift Language▲69
Swift Developers Community
2014 · swiftlang.eu · its alternatives →
23
Swift Guides▲82
The Best Way to Learn Swift Development
2014 · its alternatives →
24
RunSwift▲134
Try Swift in Your Browser
2014 · its alternatives →

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