Manda Frederick is an editor of this book. Manda has been involved
in publishing for over ten years through various creative, educational,
medical and technical print and digital publications. In her free time,
you can find her at the climbing gym, backpacking in the backcountry,
hanging with her dog, working on poems, playing guitar and
exploring breweries.
We’d also like to acknowledge the efforts of the authors of the Swift Apprentice, whose
work formed the basis for parts of this book:
• Janie Clayton is an independent iOS developer. She spent a year apprenticed to a
super genius programming robots and learning the forgotten ways of long term
software maintenance and development. Janie is the coauthor on several books on
iOS and Swift development. Janie lives outside of Madison, Wisconsin with her
attempted grumble of pugs and multitude of programming books. Janie writes her
various musings on her blog at RedQueenCoder.com.
• Alexis Gallagher is a software engineer who is always looking for the conceptual
deep dive and always hoping to find pearls down at the bottom. When he’s not
coding, he’s out and about in sunny San Francisco.
• Matt Galloway is a software engineer with a passion for excellence. He stumbled
into iOS programming when it first was a thing, and has never looked back. When not
coding, he likes to brew his own beer.
• Eli Ganim is an engineering manager at Facebook. He is passionate about teaching,
writing, and sharing his knowledge with others.
• Erik Kerber is a software developer in Minneapolis, MN, and the lead iOS developer
for the Target app. He does his best to balance a life behind the keyboard with
cycling, hiking, scuba diving, and traveling.
• Ben Morrow delights in discovering the unspoken nature of the world. He’ll tell you
the surprising bits while on a walk. He produces beauty by drawing out the raw
wisdom that exists within each of us.
• Cosmin Pupăză is a software developer and tutorial writer from Romania. He has
worked with more than a dozen programming languages over the years, but none of
them has made such a great impact on himself as the advent of Swift. When not
coding, he either plays the guitar or studies WWII history. Cosmin blogs about Swift
at cosminpupaza.wordpress.com.
• Steven Van Impe is a computer science lecturer at the University College of Ghent,
Belgium. When he’s not teaching, Steven can be found on his bike, rattling over
cobblestones and sweating up hills, or relaxing around the table, enjoying board
games with friends. You can find Steven on Twitter as @svanimpe.
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