Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
2 Hour(s) 32 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Packt Publishing
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Course Overview
Swift guide to mastering Swift technology
Swift is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled programming language developed by Apple Inc. for iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and Linux.
This course takes you deep into the Swift language. It aims to take you beyond the fluency you need for everyday Swift development, and towards becoming a true master and understand how the language works at a deep level.
You will learn Swift development, mostly using Xcode on Apple platforms, along with the ability to port your knowledge to Ubuntu Linux. You will learn stylish tricks to write elegant, professional and powerful Swift code.
With this Swift course, you will have a working understanding of how the Objective-C heritage of Apple’s platforms shapes many of its APIs. This is essential knowledge to take you past from an intermediate level into true mastery.
By the end of this course, you will be working heavily with Xcode, and will be ready to tackle graphical user interface development on macOS, iOS, watchOS and tvOS. Finally, you will be ready to build your own Swift applications with ease
About the Author
Jonathan Crooke has been a professional developer for Apple platforms since 2010, and has shipped successful apps with user-bases in the millions, working for companies such as SoundCloud, Zalando, Memrise, and EyeEm. He has worked on the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and MacOS, and has a number of popular libraries available on GitHub. With a previous career in teaching, Jonathan has considerable experience putting himself in the shoes of the learner, and communicates clearly without excessive use of jargon.
Course Content
- 6 section(s)
- 24 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Swift’s Memory Management Model
- Section 2 Managing Concurrency with (Grand Central) Dispatch
- Section 3 Swift Dependency Management
- Section 4 Sequence and Collection
- Section 5 Asynchronous Task Management with Operation/Operation Queue
- Section 6 Protocol Extensions and Protocol Oriented Programming (POP)
What You’ll Learn
- Learn advanced protocol-oriented programming
- Create original custom operator and operator methods
- Understand and extend standard library collections and protocols
- Learn flow control tricks
- Get introduced to Carthage, Swift Package Manager, and particular CocoaPods
- Become acquainted with Cocoa and the Objective-C legacy of Apple’s platforms
