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Beginning Swift [Instructor Edition]

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Product type Hardcover

Published in May 2018

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ISBN-13 9781789534313

Length 202 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Authors (2):

Rob Kerr

Kåre Morstøl

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Table of Contents (10) Chapters

Beginning Swift

Contributors

Preface

1. Swift Basics FREE CHAPTER

2. Swift Operators and Control Flow

3. Functions, Classes, and Structs

4. Collections

5. Strings

6. Functional Programming and Lazy Operations

Index

Object-Oriented Features

Throughout the past couple of lessons, we've been learning how to use Swift syntax, variables, functions, and control flow structures to develop the building blocks of Swift applications. In the final section of this lesson, we'll learn how to pull all those language components together into Swift's object-oriented classes and structures—the high-level building blocks of most professional Swift applications.

Object-Oriented Principles

Swift is an object-oriented programming language, and enables the core principles of object-oriented programming. Generally speaking, in object-oriented programming, variables, functions and data structures that implement a functional unit of your program are combined into an object that exists within its own namespace, and is accessed by other objects through filtered, publicly exposed interfaces.

Using Swift, instances are created using both structs and classes. Structs and classes support encapsulation...

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Authors (2)

Rob Kerr

Rob Kerr

Rob Kerr is a mobile software strategist, designer, and developer, with over 20 years of software development experience. He has been developing iOS applications using Swift since the language's introduction. Rob is the founder of Mobile Toolworks, a software development consultancy creating innovative software designed for a mobile-first world.

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Kåre Morstøl

Kåre Morstøl

Kre Morstl is an independent software developer from Norway, who has programmed almost exclusively in Swift since it was announced. He has created and contributed to numerous open source projects, mainly focused on command-line applications. He thinks Swift is a great language that just keeps getting better.

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