Pitre B.G. Swift for Beginners: Develop and Design

Peachpit Press, 2014. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 0-13-404470-3, ISBN13: 978-0134044705.Learning a new computer language can be daunting. With Swift, Apple has lowered the barrier to entry to writing iOS and OS X apps by giving developers an innovative new programming language for creating software. With this book students new to Swift or have never used C, C++, or Objective-C, will be writing simple Swift apps before they know it. Author Boisy Pitre starts at the beginning—walking them through key Swift features—and builds on that knowledge to show them how to take advantage of Swift’s modern programming concepts to write apps for iOS and OS X.In each chapter, Boisy highlights key Swift concepts, offering guidance and highlighting best practices, on the way to building apps using Swift. Students will not just learn the concepts of Swift but understand how to use them in a real-world setting.They will learn how to:
Start using variables, constants, and types;
Work with collections;
Use functions and closures;
Handle control structures;
Use the Playground environment for quick feedback;
Handle memory management.And the book’s last section, Boisy brings everything together and steps students through building a app.