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Learning Swift

Build a solid foundation in Swift to develop smart and robust iOS and OS X applications

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|Sep 2025
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Key Features

    Book Description

    If you are looking to build iOS or OS X apps using the most modern technology, this book is ideal for you. You will find this book especially useful if you are new to programming or if you have yet to develop for iOS or OS X.

    What you will learn

      Who this book is for

      If you are looking to build iOS or OS X apps using the most modern technology, this book is ideal for you. You will find this book especially useful if you are new to programming or if you have yet to develop for iOS or OS X.

      Table of Contents

      1. Swift, What Is It Good For?
      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: Generics
      7. Everything is Connected: Memory Management
      8. Writing Code the Swift Way: Design Patterns
      9. Harnessing the Past: Understanding and Translating Objective-C
      10. A Whole New World: Developing an App
      11. What?s Next?: Resources, Advice, and Next Steps
      PDF ISBN: 978-1-78439-962-7
      Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
      Copyright owner: © 2015 Packt Publishing Limited
      Publication date: 2025
      Language: English
      Pages: 266