Swift Essential

SkillsFuture Course - Swift Essential

This Swift 3 will take you through each component of the language, explaining what you need to know to become proficient in programming with Swift 3, from concepts to hands-on coding. Scott covers data types, control statements, functions, classes and structures, and much more.

Completing this course will prepare you to use Swift 3 to develop apps for iPhone and iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV.

Topics include:

• Installing Xcode
• Creating and using playgrounds
• Defining variables and constants
• Working with strings
• Using arrays, dictionaries, sets, and tuples
• Performing operations
• Controlling program flow
• Working with functions and closures
• Defining classes, structures, and enumerations
• Defining and adopting protocols
• Extending types
• Generic programming
• Using access control

1. Getting Started

• The Swift revolution
• Installing Xcode
• Creating a playground
• Adding pages to a playground
• Working with the results sidebar
• Logging in to the console
• Adding comments
• Running a REPL
• Using dot notation

2. Variables and Constants

• Understanding value and reference types
• Understanding mutability
• Defining strings
• Defining characters
• Defining integers
• Defining floating points
• Defining Booleans
• Defining numeric literals
• Defining type aliases
• Deferring value assignment and handling nil

3. Characters and Strings

• Understanding Unicode
• Working with strings

4. Collections and Tuples

• Defining arrays
• Inspecting and accessing arrays
• Modifying arrays
• Nesting arrays
• Defining dictionaries
• Inspecting and accessing dictionaries
• Modifying dictionaries
• Nesting dictionaries
• Defining sets
• Inspecting and comparing sets
• Performing set operations
• Modifying sets
• Nesting sets
• Defining tuples
• Accessing decomposing and nesting tuples
• Modifying tuples

5. Operators

• Using arithmetic operators
• Combining strings and arrays
• Using comparison and logical operators
• Using ternary conditional and nil coalescing operators
• Using range operators
• Using type checking and casting operators
• Understanding binary notation
• Using bitwise operators
• Understanding operator precedence and associativity

6. Control Flow

• Using for and for in
• Using while and repeat while
• Using if and if else
• Optional binding
• Using guard
• Using switch
• Using labels
• A quick note on enums
• Using if case and for case
• Deferring code execution
• Optional chaining

7. Functions

• Defining and calling functions
• Variable input and output parameters
• Reference type parameters
• Returning functions
• Returning tuples
• Currying
• Handling errors
• Overloading functions
• Creating custom operators
• Working with closures
• Using closures to calculate values
• Using advanced functions

8. Classes, Structures, and Enumerations

• Comparing classes and structures
• Working with classes
• Class instance properties
• Class instance methods
• Deinitializing a class before cleanup
• Avoiding strong reference cycles
• Working with singletons
• Working with structures
• Creating mutating structures
• Creating error type structures
• Working with basic enumerations
• Associating values in enumerations
• Working with recursive enumerations
• Subscripting

9. Protocols

• Defining and adopting protocols
• Working with protocols that have optional properties
• Using protocols in the Swift standard library
• Working with protocol types
• Implementing delegation
• Working with option set types

10. Subclassing and Extending

• Subclassing
• Initializing from subclasses
• Overriding initializers
• Preventing subclasses from overriding properties or methods
• Extending concrete types
• Adding initializers and protocol adoption via extensions
• Extending protocols
• Overriding default implementations

11. Generics

• Understanding generics
• Working with generics
• Constraining generic types
• Protocol associated types

12. Access Control

• Understanding access control
• Setting up access control
• Working with access control

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