Beginning Swift Programming - Softcover
Enter the Swift future of iOS and OS X programming
Beginning Swift Programming is your ideal starting pointfor creating Mac, iPhone, and iPad apps using Apple's new Swiftprogramming language. Written by an experienced Apple developer andtrainer, this comprehensive guide explains everything you need toknow to jumpstart the creation of your app idea. Coverage includesdata types, strings and characters, operators and functions, arraysand dictionaries, control flow, and looping, with expert guidanceon classes, objects, class inheritance, closures, protocols, andgenerics. This succinct — yet complete — overviewprovides 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. Theresults is simpler, cleaner, more expressive code with automaticmemory 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 developersmaster Apple's new language.
- Become fluent with syntax that's easier to read andmaintain
- Understand inferred types for cleaner, less mistake-pronecode
- Learn the key features that make Swift more expressive thanObjective-C
- Learn the new optional types in Swift that make your code moreresilient
- Understand the key design patterns in iOS and Mac OSprogramming 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 thecurve.
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About the Author:
Master Swift and start building interactive, fun, and fastiOS and OS X apps.
Discover, master, and build with Swift, Apple’s newprogramming language for iOS and OS X® development.This step-by-step beginner’s guide has what you need to startbuilding dynamic Mac and iPhone apps. Veteran developer andtechnology trainer Wei-Meng Lee shares real-world examples,deciphers little-known features, and reveals the advantages ofSwift, including increased app speed and safety. Throughprogrammer-to-programmer real-world instruction, you’lldiscover good programming style and methodologies that willincrease the quality of your apps and have you up and running in notime.
Beginning Swift Programming:
- Provides real-world, expert instruction for creatingiPhone® and Mac® apps usingSwift
- Helps you take advantage of Swift’s fast, secure, andflexible built-in features
- Includes detailed code examples
- Offers a complete overview of data types, strings andcharacters, operators and functions, arrays, dictionaries, andmore
- Examines control flow and looping, classes and objects, classinheritance, protocols and delegates, generics, and closures
- Demonstrates the benefits of building apps with Swift
Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learningprogramming languages and technologies easier than you think,providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you throughall the techniques involved.
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Wei-Meng Lee is a technologist and founder of DeveloperLearning Solutions (www.learn2develop.net), a technology companyspecializing in hands-on training on the latest mobiletechnologies. He is an established developer and trainerspecializing in .NET, iOS, and Android.
Wei-Meng speaks regularly at international conferences and hasauthored and co-authored numerous books on .NET, XML, and mobiletechnologies. He writes extensively for the O’Reilly Networkand Mobiforge.com on topics ranging from .NET to Mac OS X. He isalso the author of Beginning iOS 5 Application Developmentand Beginning Android 4 Application Development, both fromWrox.
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- PublisherWrox
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1119009316
- ISBN 13 9781119009313
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages288
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