Swift Get Started

Getting started with Swift is writing a program file, compiling it, and running the compiled program.

You write this file first, then compile it, then run it. Its single statement prints one line.

print("Ready")

Step one appears above Step two in the output. The order on screen matches the order in the file.

print("Step one")
print("Step two")

This file holds two statements. Each statement prints its own line.

print("My program")
print("It works")

Example

print("Program starts")
print("Program ends")

In this example, the first statement prints Program starts. The second statement prints Program ends below the first line.

Edit the code, then press Run.

print("Program starts")
print("Program ends")

Which command compiles the file main.swift?

swiftc main.swift main.swift swiftc print main.swift run swiftc