Swift for Masterminds: How to take advantage of Swift to program powerful and scalable applications for iPhones, iPads, and Macs

Learn everything you need to master the Swift programming language step by step, from beginner concepts to advanced techniques. After reading this book, you will know how to write Swift code with confidence, process data efficiently, work with advanced frameworks, and structure your projects to build powerful and scalable applications.

With this book, you will learn:

How to program in Swift 6.2
How to defined custom data types
How to extend Swift data types
How to work with protocols
How to use approachable concurrency with Swift 6.2
and more!

Content by Chapter:

Chapter 1
Introduction to Swift 6.2
Xcode 26
Playground
Swift Data Types
Conditionals and Loops

Chapter 2
Swift Functions
Standard Functions
Generic Functions
Closures

Chapter 3
Swift Structures
Key Paths
Initialization
Computed Properties
Property Observers
Generic Structures
Array Structures
Dictionary Structures
Set Structures

Chapter 4
Swift Enumerations

Chapter 5
Swift Objects
Reference Types
Self
Memory Management
Inheritance
Extensions

Chapter 6
Swift Protocols
Standard Protocols
Protocol Extensions
Delegates
Generic Protocols

Chapter 7
Error Handling
Results

Chapter 8
Introduction to Frameworks
Foundation
Core Graphics

Chapter 9
Standard Regular Expressions
Regex Builder

Chapter 10
Property Wrappers
Attributes
Macros

Chapter 11
Approachable Concurrency
Asynchronous Tasks
Async and Await
Asynchronous Sequences

Xcode 26, iOS 26, Swift 6.2