Exploring Swift

Level up your programming skills by understanding Swift's standard library and Apple's Foundation framework

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What You Will Learn!

Learn to understand the Swift Standard Library, and Apple’s cross-platform Foundation framework
Learn essential protocols in the Standard Library
Work with Foundation types for date handling, file handling, network requests and JSON parsing
Understand Foundation’s history and legacy to use it to the fullest
Work with all of Swift’s access control features
Gain a deep understanding of language features such as optionals, flow controls
Create your first Xcode projects and work with the LLDB debugger

Description

Swift is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm, and compiled programming language developed by Apple Inc. for iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and Linux.

You will begin with understanding the standard library protocols. Next, you will explore the Foundation framework and concepts such as working with Date, reading from a file, and making a simple network request. You will then learn intermediate optionals, strings, flow control, types, and closures. You will also explore error handling along with an introduction to Swift’s memory management model.

By the end of this course, you will be able to use Swift to write simple command-line utilities to run on an Apple platform or Ubuntu Linux.

About the Author

Jonathan Crooke has been a professional developer for Apple platforms since 2010, and has shipped success apps with userbases in the millions, working for companies such as SoundCloud, Zalando, Memrise, and EyeEm. He has worked on the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and MacOS, and has a number of popular libraries available on GitHub. With a previous career in teaching, Jonathan has considerable experience putting himself in the shoes of the learner, and communicates clearly, and without excessive use of jargon.