Swift Apprentice: Beyond the Basics (First Edition): The Next Step in Your Swift Development Journey

Kodeco Team; Ehab Yosry Amer; Matt Galloway; Eli Ganim

ISBN 10: 1950325873 / ISBN 13: 9781950325870

Published by Kodeco Inc., 2023

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Swift Apprentice: Beyond the Basics (First Edition): The Next Step in Your Swift Development Journey
• Publisher: Kodeco Inc.
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1950325873
• ISBN 13: 9781950325870
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Weight: 1.22 pounds

About this title

Synopsis

Learn How to Program with Swift 5.8!

Swift is the best way to develop on Apple’s platforms: iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS. In this book, you’ll continue where you left off in Swift Apprentice: Fundamentals and use playgrounds to explore powerful features of the language. As before, everything you’ll learn is platform-neutral; you’ll gain a deeper understanding of various Swift language features that will help you write better code.

Who This Book Is For:

This book is for individuals that have gone through The Swift Apprentice: Fundamentals or its equivalent and want to take advantage of more advanced language features.

Topics Covered in The Swift Apprentice: Beyond the Basics

• Access Control, Code Organization, Testing: Prepare your code to be used by a wider audience with these essential tools and techniques.
• Custom Operators: Learn how to encapsulate complex behavior in an expressive syntax that can improve the readability of your code.
• Result Builders: Build declarative DSLs that efficiently generate complex data structures from simple sequential code blocks.
• Serialization: Learn how to convert complex data structures into a format that can be stored and transmitted to enable persistence.
• Memory Management: Discover how to maintain object graphs in Swift and prevent the common causes of memory leaks.
• Value Semantics: Learn why value semantics is a tentpole feature of the Swift language and how to imbue your types with value semantics.
• Property Wrappers: Explore this declarative way to enforce behavior on properties improving your code consistency, readability and correctness.
• Protocols & Generics: Learn about existential, type erasure, primarily associated types and more.
• Concurrency: Understand the fundamentals of async/await and using actors.

After reading this book and completing the included exercises and challenges, you’ll better understand the tools and language features Swift uses to solve problems! You'll level up your understanding of how to use Swift to write better apps.