Beginning Swift Programming

Lee, Wei-Meng

ISBN 10: 1119009316 / ISBN 13: 9781119009313

Published by Wrox, 2015

About this Item

This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:9781119009313.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Beginning Swift Programming
• Publisher: Wrox
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1119009316
• ISBN 13: 9781119009313
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 600 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Computing

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.