Swift 5 Essential Training
Overview
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.
Swift is the programming language for the Apple ecosystemâiOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOSâand itâs a particularly expressive, fast, safe, and fun language thatâs suitable for new and experienced programmers alike. In this course, instructor Harrison Ferrone helps you gain hands-on experience with Swift 5, and prepares you to start developing your own apps and games using this popular language. Following an overview of Swiftâs evolution, Harrison takes you through each component of the language. He covers common data types, conditional logic, methods, functions, classes and structs, and moreâexplaining what you need to know to become proficient in programming with Swift. Examples and use cases are pulled from Harrisonâs own games, providing a practical context for each programming element.
Swift is the programming language for the Apple ecosystemâiOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOSâand itâs a particularly expressive, fast, safe, and fun language thatâs suitable for new and experienced programmers alike. In this course, instructor Harrison Ferrone helps you gain hands-on experience with Swift 5, and prepares you to start developing your own apps and games using this popular language. Following an overview of Swiftâs evolution, Harrison takes you through each component of the language. He covers common data types, conditional logic, methods, functions, classes and structs, and moreâexplaining what you need to know to become proficient in programming with Swift. Examples and use cases are pulled from Harrisonâs own games, providing a practical context for each programming element.
Syllabus
Introduction
- Begin an adventure with Swift 5
- Quest accepted: What you should know
- Swift retrospective
- Getting Xcode
- Reviewing the exercise files
- The quest begins: variables
- Variables and constants
- Type safety and inference
- Logging and commenting
- Swift operators
- Understanding strings
- Working with strings
- Type conversions
- Bools and logical operators
- Introducing optionals
- Accessing documentation
- Challenge: Player stats
- Solution: Player stats
- 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
- 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
- Leveling the playing field
- Basic functions
- Overloading functions
- Complex functions
- Function types
- Understanding closures
- Using closures
- Type aliasing
- Challenge: Battle grounds
- Solution: Battle grounds
- 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
- Final stage, final boss
- Swift enumerations
- Raw & associated values
- Introducing protocols
- Using extensions
- Throwing errors
- Handling errors
- Challenge: Battle actions
- Solution: Combat actions
- Next steps
Taught by
Harrison Ferrone
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