Swift 3 Fundamentals

Pluralsight

Course Summary

Swift is the modern, fast, and safe programming language that has rapidly become the first choice for building iOS and macOS apps. This course serves as a firm foundation in Swift, including core syntax, best practices, working with data, and more.

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Course Description

At the core of developing for any Apple platform iOS, macOS, tvOS, or watchOS - is a thorough knowledge of Swift. In this course, Swift 3 Fundamentals, you will learn to be comfortable and competent in this concise and powerful language. You will learn how this language works with data, move beyond the basics of control flow into closures and extensions, and you'll finally learn how to adopt the mindset of protocol-oriented programming, to tap into the huge amount of functionality that already exists in the Swift world. When you're finished with this course, you will have a foundational knowledge of Swift that will help you as you move forward to developing apps on iPhone, iPad, or Mac.

Course Description

At the core of developing for any Apple platform iOS, macOS, tvOS, or watchOS - is a thorough knowledge of Swift. In this course, Swift 3 Fundamentals, you will learn to be comfortable and competent in this concise and powerful language. You will learn how this language works with data, move beyond the basics of control flow into closures and extensions, and you'll finally learn how to adopt the mindset of protocol-oriented programming, to tap into the huge amount of functionality that already exists in the Swift world. When you're finished with this course, you will have a foundational knowledge of Swift that will help you as you move forward to developing apps on iPhone, iPad, or Mac.

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Course Syllabus

A Few More Reasons to Learn Swift
- 25m 42s

—Reasons to Learn Swift That Don't Include the Word 'Apple' 3m 9s
—The One Thing I Expect (And Two Things You Should) 4m 12s
—The Basic Structure of Swift 5m 7s
—Writing and Running Swift in a Playground 7m 36s
—Sidebar: Writing Swift in the REPL 3m 44s
—Sidebar: The Swift Compilation Process 1m 51s

Piece by Piece: What Your Data Means
- 48m 35s

—Understanding Variables in Swift 5m 30s
—Constants: Why They're Important 6m 47s
—Introducing Operators 2m 28s
—Converting in Swift: When It Happens (And When It Doesn't) 6m 40s
—Making Conversion Happen 4m 56s
—Optionals — An Introduction 7m 49s
—Unwrapping Your Optionals 5m 39s
—Creating and Using Arrays 8m 44s

Shaping the Path: Controlling the Flow of Your Code
- 28m 3s

—The Good Old 'if' Statement and What's Different About It 3m 48s
—Writing Switch Statements 8m 17s
—Creating Loops and Making Ranges 7m 21s
—Sidebar: Taking Longer Strides 3m 37s
—Sidebar: Using String Interpolation 4m 57s

Constructing Code: Who Does What? - Creating Functions
- 21m 41s

—Defining and Calling Functions 5m 59s
—Returning Values 2m 17s
—Introducing Function Types 4m 3s
—Correctly Ignoring Return Values 1m 39s
—Customizing Argument Labels 5m 21s
—Naming Functions in Swift 2m 20s

Taking Data Types Further: When to Limit, Describe, and Collect
- 27m 7s

—Using Enumerations 9m 55s
—Defining and Using Structs 5m 10s
—Working with Dictionaries 6m 48s
—Creating and Decomposing Tuples 5m 13s

Making Sense of Closures
- 25m 9s

—Making Sense of Closures: Why You Use Them 5m 59s
—Exploring Closure Scenarios: What They Are, and Where You Use Them 7m 45s
—Using Closure Syntax: How to Write (and Read) Them 11m 25s

Using Classes and Objects in Swift
- 25m 52s

—Defining Classes 3m 51s
—Adding Initializers 2m 59s
—Revisiting Classes and Structs 6m 51s
—Implementing Inheritance and Overriding Methods 4m 46s
—Adding Functionality with Extensions 3m 9s
—Using Computed Properties 4m 13s

Introducing Protocols
- 25m 8s

—Introducing Protocols 9m 30s
—Defining and Handling Errors in Swift 5m 52s
—Dealing with Errors with Do-Catch and Try Statements 3m 12s
—Using Guard and Defer 6m 32s