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Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786466129

Length 392 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Swift

Tools

iOS

Concepts

iOS Development

Author (1):

Jon Hoffman

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Taking the First Steps with Swift FREE CHAPTER

2. Learning About Variables, Constants, Strings, and Operators

3. Using Swift Collections and the Tuple Type

4. Control Flow and Functions

5. Classes and Structures

6. Using Protocols and Protocol Extensions

7. Protocol-Oriented Design

8. Writing Safer Code with Availability and Error Handling

9. Custom Subscripting

10. Using Optional Types

11. Working with Generics

12. Working with Closures

13. Using Mix and Match

14. Concurrency and Parallelism in Swift

15. Swift Formatting and Style Guide

16. Swifts Core Libraries

17. Adopting Design Patterns in Swift

Chapter 1. Taking the First Steps with Swift

Ever since I was 12 years old and wrote my first program in the BASIC programming language, programming has been a passion for me. Even as programming became my career, it always remained more of a passion than a job, but over the past few years, that passion waned. I was unsure why I was losing that passion. I attempted to recapture it with some of my side projects, but nothing really brought back the excitement that I used to have. Then, something wonderful happened! Apple announced Swift. Swift is such an exciting and progressive language that it has brought a lot of that passion back and made programming fun for me again.

In this chapter, you will learn:

What Swift is?
What are some of the features of Swift?
What Playgrounds are?
How to use Playgrounds?
What the basic syntaxes of the Swift language are?