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Mastering Swift 5.3

You're reading from   Mastering Swift 5.3 Upgrade your knowledge and become an expert in the latest version of the Swift programming language

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800562158
Length 418 pages
Edition 6th Edition
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Jon Hoffman Jon Hoffman
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

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

Summary

In this chapter, we looked at some of the different documentation that Apple and the Swift community offer. This documentation can be essential as you are learning Swift and also for reference once you have mastered the language itself. We also looked at how we can build and install Swift and its full toolchain. While using the latest build of Swift is not recommended for production systems, I usually keep a virtual machine or my desktop setup with a recent build. This enables me to use the latest features of the language and also run my code against it to make sure I am not introducing changes that are not compatible with future versions of the language.

In the next chapter, we will start to get into the language itself and we will see how to use variables and constants in Swift. We will also look at the various data types and how to use operators in Swift.

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Mastering Swift 5.3 - Sixth Edition
Published in: Nov 2020
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781800562158
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