First, I've had this conversation with other programmers. The more programming languages you've worked in, the easier the next one is.<\/p>\n
Which is rather shocking to find out that a friend who followed me in computer science at Southern Mississippi didn't have the same experience as I did. Also, it's apparently an unique experience which is why most employers don't get me.<\/p>\n
I learned BASIC and FORTRAN in high school. Special program — outreach by Jackson State (FYI – I am NOT from Mississippi, just spent 2 years of high school and undergraduate there). At Southern Miss, I did FORTRAN in introductory, then Assembly, then COBOL, and then Programming Languages, where we did at least three programs in each major type of language.<\/p>\n
I played a lot with APL, and friends and I were working on an IDE for APL, written in APL as a side project.<\/p>\n
As required classes, we had to write an Assembler and a Compiler.<\/p>\n
As a professional, I've done work in COBOL, Pascal, Assembly, C#, Java, PHP and have written apps for both Windows Phone and Android.<\/p>\n
I've taught Pascal, Visual Basic, and Java and C#. So yeah, programming languages are just programming languages. In fact, a lot of the time, I have to have a Window open with basic commands. I was known to start writing in Visual Basic when we were in Java. Hey, it make the kids pay attention \ud83d\ude42 Played with Python too, and outlined a course for kids in it.<\/p>\n
So Swift is just another programming language with it's own flavor, and it doesn't look like that big of deal. Just started delving into it. By yeah, Alfred, I think it is doable.<\/p>\n
And Xcode isn't a bad IDE, I like that the tutorial I found was written by Apple and is a playground.<\/p>\n
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