Chapter 5. Organizing with Classes and Structures

Swift is an object-oriented language, and as such, it is apropos to devote considerable real estate to the subject. If you are familiar with other object-oriented languages, such as Objective-C and C++, the concepts presented here will be very familiar to you. If you are new to the idea of object-oriented programming (OOP), don’t be alarmed. I’ll take you through a tour of the concepts to prepare you for Swift’s flavor of OOP.

No matter what your current familiarity is with OOP concepts, preparing yourself with a new playground file in Xcode 7 is a good idea. Choose File > New > Playground, and save your new playground file as Chapter 5.playground. You’ll use this playground for all the examples ...

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