About this Course

This Apple Swift training class is a comprehensive introduction to the Swift programming language (version 2.2).

At Course Completion

Upon completing this course, students will be able to:

• Understand the purpose and benefits of Swift
• Gain experience using Swift’s data types and standard library
• Learn the proper use of optionals
• Implement a variety of user-defined types in Swift
• Learn about the new error handling tool and techniques in Swift 2
• Understand how to write Swift code that can interoperate with existing code written in C and Objective-C

Prerequisites

All attendees should have previous programming experience using an object-oriented language such as Objective-C, C#, Java, or C++.

Course Outline

Introduction

• Purpose of Swift
• Evolution of Swift
• Goals of Swift
• Execution Environment

Fundamentals

• Files and Initialization
• Statements
• Constants and Variables
• Type Annotations
• Numeric Types
• Booleans
• Strings and Characters
• Tuples
• Conditional Statements
• Loops

Optionals

• Introduction
• Forced Unwrapping
• Optional Binding
• Optional Chaining
• Implicitly Unwrapped Optionals

Functions

• Introduction
• External Parameter Names
• Default Parameter Values
• Variadic Parameters
• InOut Parameters
• Function Types
• Closures

Collections

• Introduction
• Arrays
• Sets
• Dictionaries

Object-Oriented Techniques

• Enumerations
• Structures
• Classes
• Computed Properties
• Property Observers
• Automatic Reference Counting (ARC)
• Inheritance
• Type Casting
• Initialization
• Deinitialization
• Protocols
• Extensions
• Access Control

Error Handling

• Introduction
• Representing and Throwing Errors
• Handing Errors
• Cleanup Actions
• Guards

Generics

• Introduction
• Generic Functions
• Generic Types
• Type Constraints

Interoperability

• Introduction
• Objective-C Frameworks
• C Libraries
• Mixed Projects