Swift Apprentice, 7th Edition: Beginning Programming with Swift

by Alexis Gallagher, Ben Morrow, Cosmin Pupaza, Ehab Yosry Amer, Eli Ganim, Matt Galloway, raywenderlich Tutorial Team

Length: 575 pages
Edition: 1
Language: English
Publisher: Razeware LLC
Publication Date: 2021-10-26
ISBN-10: 1950325520
ISBN-13: 9781950325528
Sales Rank: #99166 (See Top 100 Books)

Learn How to Program with Swift 5.5!

Swift is the easiest way to get started developing on Apple’s platforms: iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS. In this book, you’ll learn the basics of Swift from getting started with playgrounds to simple operations to building your own types. Everything you’ll learn is platform-neutral; you’ll have a firm understanding of Swift by the end of this book, and you’ll be ready to move on to whichever app platform you’re interested in.

Who This Book Is For:

This book is for complete beginners to Swift. No prior programming experience is necessary!

Topics Covered in The Swift Apprentice

After reading this book and completing your Swift apprenticeship by working through the included exercises and challenges, you’ll be ready to take on app development on the platform of your choice!

Playground basics: Learn about the coding environment where you can quickly and easily try out your code as you learn.
Basic types: Numbers and strings are the basic kinds of data in any app — learn how to use them in Swift.
Flow control: Your code doesn’t always run straight through — learn how to use conditions and decide what to do.
Functions: Group your code together into reusable chunks to run and pass around.
Collection types: Discover the many ways Swift offers to store and organize data into collections.
Protocols & protocol-oriented programming: Define protocols to make your code more interface-based and compositional.
Advanced topics: Learn how to create custom operators, organize your code, write tests, manage memory, serialize your types, concurrency and so much more.

Swift Apprentice
Book License
Before You Begin
What You Need
Book Source Code & Forums
Dedications
About the Team
Introduction
Section I: Swift Basics
Chapter 1: Expressions, Variables & Constants
Chapter 2: Types & Operations
Chapter 3: Basic Control Flow
Chapter 4: Advanced Control Flow
Chapter 5: Functions
Chapter 6: Optionals
Section II: Collection Types
Chapter 7: Arrays, Dictionaries & Sets
Chapter 8: Collection Iteration With Closures
Chapter 9: Strings
Section III: Building Your Own Types
Chapter 10: Structures
Chapter 11: Properties
Chapter 12: Methods
Chapter 13: Classes
Chapter 14: Advanced Classes
Chapter 15: Enumerations
Chapter 16: Protocols
Chapter 17: Generics
Section IV: Advanced Topics
Chapter 18: Access Control, Code Organization & Testing
Chapter 19: Custom Operators, Subscripts & Keypaths
Chapter 20: Result Builders
Chapter 21: Pattern Matching
Chapter 22: Error Handling
Chapter 23: Encoding & Decoding Types
Chapter 24: Memory Management
Chapter 25: Value Types & Reference Types
Chapter 26: Property Wrappers
Chapter 27: Protocol-Oriented Programming
Chapter 28: Advanced Protocols & Generics
Chapter 29: Concurrency
Conclusion