Swift 5 Essential Training

Gain hands-on experience with Swift 5. Learn the fundamentals of this popular programming language, so you can develop your own apps and games for macOS and iOS.

Introduction

• Begin an adventure with Swift 5
• Quest accepted: What you should know

1. Getting Started

• Swift retrospective
• Getting Xcode
• Reviewing the exercise files

2. Getting to Know Your Data

• The quest begins: Variables
• Variables and constants
• Type safety and inference
• Logging and commenting
• Swift operators
• Understanding strings
• Working with strings
• Type conversions
• Booleans and logical operators
• Introducing optionals
• Accessing documentation
• Challenge: Player stats
• Solution: Player stats

3. Working with Collections

• Gathering inventory with collections
• Swift arrays
• Core array methods
• Swift dictionaries
• Core dictionary methods
• Working with sets
• Core set methods
• Swift tuples
• Challenge: Merchant shop
• Solution: Merchant shop

4. Application Control Flow

• Controlling your destiny
• The if statement
• Unwrapping optionals
• Using for-in loops
• While loops
• The switch statement
• The guard statement
• Challenge: Game logic
• Solution: Game logic

5. The Wide World of Functions

• Leveling the playing field
• Basic functions
• Overloading functions
• Complex functions
• Function types
• Understanding closures
• Using closures
• Type aliasing
• Challenge: Battlegrounds
• Solution: Battlegrounds

6. Classes, Structs, and Beyond

• Populating the game world
• Value vs. reference types
• Basic Swift classes
• Access modifiers and properties
• Subclassing in Swift
• Basic Swift structs
• Chaining optionals
• Challenge: Inventory system
• Solution: Inventory system

7. Leveling Up with Enums, Protocols, and Errors

• Final stage, final boss
• Swift enumerations
• Raw and associated values
• Introducing protocols
• Using extensions
• Throwing errors
• Handling errors
• Challenge: Battle actions
• Solution: Battle actions

Conclusion

• Next steps