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Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800562158

Length 418 pages

Edition 6th Edition

Languages

Swift

Concepts

Application Development

Author (1):

Jon Hoffman

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Taking the First Steps with Swift

2. Swift Documentation and Installing Swift FREE CHAPTER

3. Learning about Variables, Constants, Strings, and Operators

4. Optional Types

5. Using Swift Collections

6. Control Flow

7. Functions

8. Classes, Structures, and Protocols

9. Protocols and Protocol Extensions

10. Protocol-Oriented Design

11. Generics

12. Error Handling and Availability

13. Custom Subscripting

14. Working with Closures

15. Advanced and Custom Operators

16. Concurrency and Parallelism in Swift

17. Custom Value Types

18. Memory Management

19. Swift Formatting and Style Guide

20. Adopting Design Patterns in Swift

21. Other Books You May Enjoy

22. Index

Taking the First Steps with Swift

Ever since I was 12 years old and wrote my first program in BASIC, I have been passionate about programming. Even as I became a professional programmer, programming remained more of a passion than a job, but in the years preceding the first release of Swift, that passion had 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 amazing happened: Apple announced Swift in 2014. Swift is such an exciting and progressive language that it has brought a lot of that passion back for me and made programming fun again. With official versions of Swift available for the Linux and Windows platforms and an unofficial version for the ARM platform, developing with Swift is becoming available to people outside the Apple ecosystem. There are also some very exciting projects using Swift, such as TensorFlow for machine learning and CoreML for IBM Watson. This is an exciting time to be learning the Swift language.

In this chapter, you will learn about the following topics: