Beginning Swift Programming (eBook)

Enter the Swift future of iOS and OS X programming

Beginning Swift Programming is your ideal starting point
for creating Mac, iPhone, and iPad apps using Apple's new Swift
programming language. Written by an experienced Apple developer and
trainer, this comprehensive guide explains everything you need to
know to jumpstart the creation of your app idea. Coverage includes
data types, strings and characters, operators and functions, arrays
and dictionaries, control flow, and looping, with expert guidance
on classes, objects, class inheritance, closures, protocols, and
generics. This succinct -- yet complete -- overview
provides a detailed introduction to the core features of Swift.

Apple developed Swift to address the limitations of Objective-C,
and add features found in more complex languages like Python. The
results is simpler, cleaner, more expressive code with automatic
memory management, functional programming patterns, and more,
including built-in features that make Swift apps faster, scalable,
and more secure. This book explains it all, helping developers
master Apple's new language.

* Become fluent with syntax that's easier to read and
maintain

* Understand inferred types for cleaner, less mistake-prone
code

* Learn the key features that make Swift more expressive than
Objective-C

* Learn the new optional types in Swift that make your code more
resilient

* Understand the key design patterns in iOS and Mac OS
programming using protocols and delegates

* Learn how to use generics to create highly reusable code

* Learn the new access controls mechanism in Swift

Get up to speed quickly to remain relevant and ahead of the
curve.