Mastering Swift : master Apple's new Swift programming language by following the best practices to write efficient and powerful code / Jon Hoffman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoffman, Jon, author.

Series:

Community experience distilled.

Community Experience Distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

iPhone (Smartphone)--Programming.

iPhone (Smartphone).

Swift (Computer program language).

Application software--Development.

Application software.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (358 p.)

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England ; Mumbai, [India] : Packt Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

If you are a developer that learns best by looking at, and working with, code, then this book is for you. A basic understanding of Apple's tools is beneficial but not mandatory.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Credits""; ""About the Author""; ""About the Reviewers""; ""www.PacktPub.com""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter 1: Taking the First Steps with Swift""; ""What is Swift?""; ""Swift features""; ""Playgrounds""; ""Getting started with Playgrounds""; ""iOS and OS X Playgrounds""; ""Showing images in a Playground""; ""Displaying graphs in Playgrounds""; ""What Playgrounds are not""; ""Swift language syntax""; ""Comments""; ""Semicolons""; ""Parentheses""; ""Curly braces""; ""Assignment operator (=) does not return a value""

""Spaces are optional in conditional and assignment statements""""Hello world""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 2: Learning about Variables, Constants, Strings, and Operators""; ""Constants and variables""; ""Defining constants and variables""; ""Type safety""; ""Type inference""; ""Explicit types""; ""Numeric types""; ""Integers""; ""Floating-point""; ""The Boolean type""; ""The string type""; ""Optional variables""; ""Enumerations""; ""Operators""; ""The assignment operator""; ""Comparison operators""; ""Arithmetic operators""; ""The remainder operator""; ""Increment and decrement operators""

""Compound assignment operators""""The ternary conditional operator""; ""The logical NOT operator""; ""The logical AND operator""; ""The logical OR operator""; ""Summary""; ""Chapter 3: Using Collections and Cocoa Data Types""; ""Swift collection types""; ""Mutability""; ""Arrays""; ""Creating and initializing arrays""; ""Accessing the array elements""; ""Counting the elements of an array""; ""Is the array empty?""; ""Appending to an array""; ""Inserting a value into an array""; ""Replacing elements in an array""; ""Removing elements from an array""; ""Adding two arrays""

""Reversing an array""""Retrieving a subarray from an array""; ""Making bulk changes to an array""; ""Algorithms for arrays""; ""sort""; ""sorted""; ""filter""; ""map""; ""Iterating over an array""; ""Dictionaries""; ""Creating and initializing dictionaries""; ""Accessing dictionary values""; ""Counting key/values in a dictionary""; ""Is the dictionary empty?""; ""Updating the value of a key""; ""Adding a key-value pair""; ""Removing a key-value pair""; ""Tuples""; ""Using Cocoa data types""; ""NSNumber""; ""NSString data type""; ""NSArray""; ""NSDictionary""; ""Foundation data types""

""Summary""""Chapter 4: Control Flow and Functions""; ""What we have learned so far""; ""Curly brackets""; ""Parenthesis""; ""Control flow""; ""Conditional statements""; ""The if statement""; ""Executing codes with the if-else statement""; ""The for loops""; ""Using the for loop variant""; ""Using the for-in loop variant""; ""The while loop""; ""Using the while loop""; ""Using the do-while loop""; ""The switch statement""; ""Control transfer statements""; ""The continue statement""; ""The break statement""; ""The fallthrough statement""; ""Functions""; ""Using a single parameter function""

""Using a multiparameter function""

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 8, 2015).

OCLC:

913095988