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Learning Swift Second Edition - Second Edition

You're reading from  Learning Swift Second Edition - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Mar 2016
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781785887512
Pages 308 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Andrew J Wagner Andrew J Wagner
Profile icon Andrew J Wagner

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Learning Swift Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Introducing Swift 2. Building Blocks – Variables, Collections, and Flow Control 3. One Piece at a Time – Types, Scopes, and Projects 4. To Be or Not To Be – Optionals 5. A Modern Paradigm – Closures and Functional Programming 6. Make Swift Work For You – Protocols and Generics 7. Everything Is Connected – Memory Management 8. Paths Less Traveled – Error Handling 9. Writing Code the Swift Way – Design Patterns and Techniques 10. Harnessing the Past – Understanding and Translating Objective-C 11. A Whole New World – Developing an App 12. What's Next? – Resources, Advice, and the Next Steps Index

Example


Let's take a look at what this looks like in practice. We can use some of the techniques we learned in this chapter to write a different and possibly better implementation of our party inviter.

We can start by defining the same input data:

//: List of people to invite
let invitees = [
    "Sarah",
    "Jamison",
    "Marcos",
    "Roana",
    "Neena",
]

//: Dictionary of shows organized by genre
var showsByGenre = [
    "Comedy": "Modern Family",
    "Drama": "Breaking Bad",
    "Variety": "The Colbert Report",
]

In this implementation, we are making the invitees list, which is just a constant list of names and the shows by genre dictionary variable. This is because we are going to be mapping our invitees list to a list of invitation text. As we do the mapping, we will have to pick a random genre to assign to the current invitee, and in order to avoid assigning the same genre more than once, we can remove the genre from the dictionary.

So let's write the random genre function:

func pickAndRemoveRandomGenre...
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