Exploring Swift

Exploring Swift, available at $19.99, has an average rating of 3.85, with 29 lectures, based on 15 reviews, and has 81 subscribers.

You will learn about 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 This course is ideal for individuals who are Developers with a basic understand of Swift’s core features, and good familiarity with at least one other modern object-oriented programming language It is particularly useful for Developers with a basic understand of Swift’s core features, and good familiarity with at least one other modern object-oriented programming language.

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Summary

Title: Exploring Swift

Price: $19.99

Average Rating: 3.85

Number of Lectures: 29

Number of Published Lectures: 29

Number of Curriculum Items: 29

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 29

Original Price: $199.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

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

Who Should Attend

Developers with a basic understand of Swift’s core features, and good familiarity with at least one other modern object-oriented programming language

Target Audiences

Developers with a basic understand of Swift’s core features, and good familiarity with at least one other modern object-oriented programming language

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.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Foundation Date Handling

Lecture 1: The Course Overview

Lecture 2: Date and TimeInterval

Lecture 3: DateComponents, Calendar, Locale, and TimeZone

Lecture 4: Date Formatters

Chapter 2: Standard Library Protocols

Lecture 1: Type Convenience Protocols

Lecture 2: Expressible By Protocols and Associated Types

Chapter 3: Errors and Foundation Resource Types

Lecture 1: Identifying and Calling Error Throwing Methods

Lecture 2: URL and URLComponents

Lecture 3: Data

Lecture 4: Errors & Foundation Resource Types

Chapter 4: Foundation File Handling

Lecture 1: Bundle on macOS

Lecture 2: Locating Bundle Resources

Lecture 3: FileManager

Lecture 4: Coding JSON in Swift 4+

Lecture 5: Foundation File Handling

Chapter 5: More on Custom Types

Lecture 1: Access Control Units and Levels

Lecture 2: Using Access Controls

Lecture 3: More on Custom Types

Chapter 6: More on Optional, Enums, Pattern Matching and Flow Control

Lecture 1: Looking Closer at Optional

Lecture 2: More on Switch Pattern Matching

Lecture 3: Guard and Defer

Chapter 7: Looking Deeper at String and Functional Transforms

Lecture 1: Looking Deeper at String

Lecture 2: Functional Transforms

Lecture 3: String as a Collection

Chapter 8: Foundation Networking

Lecture 1: Asynchronous Swift

Lecture 2: Making Network Requests

Lecture 3: Foundation Networking

Chapter 9: Xcode Projects and LLDB

Lecture 1: Xcode Projects

Lecture 2: Using LLDB

Instructors

Packt Publishing
Tech Knowledge in Motion

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