Chapter 7. Toy Bin

When creating your application, there might come a point where you need to create a list, or you might come to a point where you want to associate a bunch of values with a bunch of other values (like a real-life dictionary). To solve this problem, we will walk you through what an array is and what a dictionary is in this chapter. These are considered collection types in Swift and are very powerful.

This chapter will help you understand the following things:

  • An array is a collection type that allows you to store an ordered list of values
  • A dictionary is a collection type that is unordered and associates various keys with values
  • An optional is a type that handles the situation where there might not be a value

Collection types

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