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As a newbie in this area, I always heard abouy many questions about xcode and swift. What exactlt are their difference, and which one should I choose?

Please help, thanks guys~
 
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As a newbie in this area, I always heard abouy many questions about xcode and swift. What exactlt are their difference, and which one should I choose?.............

Hello Stephanie.... - welcome to the forum! :) A little introductory information on you would help to better understand your rather brief question; plus, a little googling should provide plenty of information, e.g. xCode 8 and Swift.

Now, I'm not a developer and do not use these programming languages, so let us know about you, e.g. are you a developer? Dave
 

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For starters, you can comparing a tool and a language..:)

So let's get the basics out of the way. The free developer toolset available from Apple is called Xcode which allows you to write applications for macOS, iOS, tvOS and watchOS in either Objective-C or the newly introduced Swift. Objective-C is the language that's been around for a long time and brings object oriented programming techniques to the C language.

Swift is more like a scripting language like Python/Ruby and so on and is supposed to get you going faster by taking away the complexities of a compiled language like Obj-C.

Anyway, please tell us your programming capabilities so that we may direct you at the right thing..
 

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