Thinking Different by Saul Mora

Presented to the Swift Language User Group Meetup.

Transcript

1. Thinking Different Saul Mora smora@coursera.org
3. Thinking Different Saul Mora
4. 
5. So far this year…
6. iOS8 OS X Yosemite Xcode6 WATCH Swift HealthKit HomeKit iPhone6 iPhone6+ WatchKit CloudKit KitKit
15. Swift
16. Objective C was working just fine
19. What can you do in Swift that you couldn’t have done in Objective C? (audience participation requested)
20. Less Code
27. International Obfuscated C Code Contest
28. IOCCC
29. – B R E T V I C T O R A (programming) language must be parsed by people, not just compilers
30. – M E , J U S T N O W You can write bad code in any language.
31. Swift Objective C Object Oriented ✔ ✔ Functional ✔ ✔ Strong Types ✔ Suggested Types ✔
32. Swift Objective C Namespaces ✔ First Class Functions ✔ Operator Overloading ✔ Full Unicode Strings ✔ ✔* Dynamic Dispatch ✔
33. Modern Swift Objective C Semicolons ✔ Curly Braces ✔ ✔ Confusing square brackets ✔ ✔ Emoji Variable Names ✔ Modern ✔
34. Modern
35. – M O D E R N P R O G R A M M I N G L A N G U A G E D E F I N I T I O N A programming language that implements new and recently developed language syntax, tools and ideas as primary characteristics.
36. – J O H N N Y B R O G R A M M E R Dude, naw, it’s a programming language that doesn’t suck like Objective C, brah! True story…
38. Objective C
39. Swift
46. 0001 0000010000! 0002 0000000000-! 0003 1000018003! 0004 6100080007! 0005 2400008003! 0006 0100008000! 0007 6900060005! 0008 2019990003
47. Assembler
48. IPL LISP FORTRAN COBOL Simula APL ALGOL RPG
49. Logo
51. fd 50
52. rt 90
53. fd 50
54. rt 90
55. fd 50
56. rt 90
57. fd 50
58. square 50
60. Smalltalk
61. 1980’s
63. 1980s
66. joy lda SWCHA ;load joysticks! ora #$0f ;strip the data for player #2 joystick! cmp #$ef ;up! beq up! cmp #$df ;down! beq down! cmp #$bf ;left! beq left! cmp #$7f ;right! beq right! lda #$00 ;no movement! sta JOYDEL ;reset the joystick delay variable! lda #$01 ;reset the first move variable! sta JOY1ST! jmp oscan ;finish off the overscan! ! up lda HOURS ;check to see if we've run out our hours! cmp #$01! beq oscan ;yep, then ignore the movement! inc JOYDEL ;increase the joystick delay variable! lda JOY1ST ;check to see if this is the first move in this! cmp #$01 ;direction.! beq now1 ;if it is then change the variable now! lda #$1E ;nope then see if there's been enough of a delay! cmp JOYDEL ;to change the variable yet.! bne oscan! now1 lda #$00 ;reset the joystick delay and set the first move! sta JOY1ST ;indicator to "no"! sta JOYDEL! dec HOURS ;decrease the hours counter! jmp oscan
69. 10 PRINT “Enter Name”:INPUT N$! 20 PRINT “Hello,” N$
70. 10 PRINT “Enter Name”:INPUT N$! 20 PRINT “Hello,” N$ 30 GOTO 20
71. Hello,SaUL! Hello,SaUL! Hello,SaUL! Hello,SaUL! Hello,SaUL! Hello,SaUL! Hello,SaUL! Hello,SaUL! Hello,SaUL! Hello,SaUL! Hello,SaUL! Hello,SaUL
76. Object Oriented Cake (Objective-C) Interface Builder Frosting
80. Interface Builder
81. Objective C : Interface Builder :: Swift : _____________
82. Objective C : Interface Builder :: Swift : Playgrounds
83. <swift playground here>
84. Swift
85. What can you do in Swift that you couldn’t have done in Objective C?
86. What should we ask Swift to do, that would be hard or impossible in Objective C?
88. Fox https://github.com/jeffh/Fox
89. Concurrency
94. What does it all mean?
95. The Future
96. Swift
97. Asking Questions
98. Thinking Different Saul Mora