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Object???Oriented Programming with Swift 2

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Product type Book
Published in Jan 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785885693
Pages 332 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Gaston C. Hillar Gaston C. Hillar
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Object–Oriented Programming with Swift 2
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
1. Objects from the Real World to Playground 2. Structures, Classes, and Instances 3. Encapsulation of Data with Properties 4. Inheritance, Abstraction, and Specialization 5. Contract Programming with Protocols 6. Maximization of Code Reuse with Generic Code 7. Object-Oriented Programming and Functional Programming 8. Extending and Building Object-Oriented Code Exercise Answers Index

Understanding functions as first-class citizens


Swift is a multiparadigm programming language, and one of its supported programming paradigms is functional programming. Functional programming favors immutable data and, therefore, avoids state changes. The code written with a functional programming style is as declarative as possible, and it is focused on what it does instead of how it must do it.

As it happens in many modern programming languages, functions are first-class citizens in Swift. You can use functions as arguments for other functions or methods. We can easily understand this concept with a simple example: array filtering. However, take into account that we will start by writing imperative code with functions as first-class citizens, and then, we will create a new version for this code that uses a functional approach in Swift through a filter operation.

The following lines declare the applyFunctionToNumbers function that receives an array of Int and numbers and a function type,...

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