Swift Pocket Reference

by Anthony Gray

Get quick answers for developing and debugging applications with Swift, Apple’s multi-paradigm programming language. This pocket reference is the perfect on-the-job tool for learning Swift’s modern language features, including type safety, generics, type inference, closures, tuples, automatic memory management, and support for Unicode.Designed to work with Cocoa and Cocoa Touch, Swift can be used in tandem with Objective-C, and either of these languages can call APIs implemented in the other. Swift is still evolving, but it’s clear that Apple sees it as the future language of choice for iOS and OS X software development.Topics ’s Run-Eval-Print-Loop (REPL) and interactive playgroundsSupported data types, such as strings, arrays, and dictionariesVariables and constantsProgram loops and conditional executionClasses, structures, enumerations, functions, and similar to blocks in Objective-C and lambdas in C# values that can explicitly

Genres: Reference

183 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2014

Reviews

[Juanjo Conti · Rating 4 out of 5]

Complete and agile to read language reference.

[Dastan Goliat · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is easy to read, concise and has all the information you need to get started with swift.