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Swift Fundamentals
Swift is the modern, fast, and safe programming language that has rapidly become the first choice for building iOS and macOS apps. This course serves as a firm foundation in Swift, including core syntax, best practices, working with data, and more.
What you'll learn
At the core of developing for any Apple platform iOS, macOS, tvOS, or watchOS - is a thorough knowledge of Swift. In this course, Swift Fundamentals, you will learn to be comfortable and competent in this concise and powerful language. You will learn how this language works with data, move beyond the basics of control flow into closures and extensions, and you'll finally learn how to adopt the mindset of protocol-oriented programming, to tap into the huge amount of functionality that already exists in the Swift world. When you're finished with this course, you will have a foundational knowledge of Swift that will help you as you move forward to developing apps on iPhone, iPad, or Mac.
Table of contents
- Reasons to Learn Swift That Don't Include the Word 'Apple' | 3m 9s
- The One Thing I Expect (And Two Things You Should) | 3m 36s
- The Basic Structure of Swift | 5m 7s
- Writing and Running Swift in a Playground | 9m 44s
- Sidebar: Writing Swift in the REPL | 3m 44s
- Sidebar: The Swift Compilation Process | 1m 51s
- Understanding Variables in Swift | 5m 30s
- Constants: Why They're Important | 6m 46s
- Introducing Operators | 2m 28s
- Converting in Swift: When It Happens (And When It Doesn't) | 6m 40s
- Making Conversion Happen | 4m 56s
- Optionals — An Introduction | 7m 49s
- Unwrapping Your Optionals | 5m 39s
- Creating and Using Arrays | 8m 42s
About the author
With over three decades of software development experience, Simon has programmed in every discipline: from finance to transportation, nuclear reactors to game development. His first video course released back in 2002: since then, his popular courses have been viewed by hundreds of thousands of developers. Simon obsesses on making complicated subjects accessible, memorable, and easier to learn.
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