Preface

Swift is a multi-paradigm language. It has expressive features familiar to those used to working with modern functional languages, whilst also keeping the object-oriented features of Objective-C. Swift vastly streamlines the developer experience, and Apple's Xcode playground is a real game-changer.

The book begins by teaching you the basic syntax and structure of Swift, and how to correctly structure and architect software using Swift. It then builds expertise in the core Swift standard library you will need to understand to complete real-world Swift programming projects. We will work through concepts such as operators, branching and loop structures, functions, classes, structs, collections, and strings. We end the book with a brief look ...

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