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Swift 4 Programming Cookbook

You're reading from Swift 4 Programming Cookbook 50 task-oriented recipes to maximise Swift 4 productivity

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786460899

Length 384 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Swift

Tools

iOS

Concepts

iOS Development

Table of Contents (9) Chapters

Preface

1. Swift Building Blocks FREE CHAPTER

2. Building on the Building Blocks

3. Data Wrangling with Swift Control Flow

4. Generics, Operators, and Nested Types

5. Beyond the Standard Library

6. Swift Playgrounds

7. Server-Side Swift

8. Performance and Responsiveness in Swift

Data Wrangling with Swift Control Flow

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

Making decisions with if/else
Switch it up
For the love of loops
While loops
Try, throw, do, and catch - Swift error handling
Checking up front with Guard
Doing it later with defer
Bailing out with fatalError and precondition

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