Swift For Dummies by Jesse Feiler
Learn to:
- Get up and running with Swift on Xcode(R)
- Set up a playground environment to test Swift syntax quickly
- Collect, declare, and type data
- Create an app that uses location, mapping, and social media
Here's the Swift solution to learning Apple's new, simpler programming language
Designed from the ground up to be easier than Objective-C, Swift is expected to become the premier programming language for iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps. Get onboard now with this plain-English guide! Learn to set up Xcode for a new Swift application, start building iPhone and iPad apps, mix and match Objective-C with Swift, and much more.
- Off to a Swift start -- get the developer tools, set up your Mac, register as a developer, and plan your environment
- Welcome to the playground -- discover the playground environment, where you can write simple or complex code and watch while it executes
- Get your actions together -- see how Swift treats actions and function definitions
- Building Swift classes -- find out about the initialization and deinitialization features and how Swift expressions are built
- Classes, structures, and enumerations -- learn to work with these as well as methods, functions, actions, and protocols
Open the book and find:
- How to combine projects into workspaces
- Steps for creating a playground
- All about Xcode editing tools
- Advice on using constants and variables
- Using internal and external names for parameters
- Tips for working with optional types
- Using the iOS Simulator to test your code
- Ten Swift features that aren't in Objective-C(R)
Jesse Feiler is a developer, web designer, trainer, and author. He has been an Apple developer since 1985 and has worked with mobile devices starting with Apple's Newton and continuing with the iOS products such as the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Feiler's database expertise includes mainframe databases such as DMS II (on Burroughs), DB2 (on IBM), and Oracle (on various platforms), as well as personal computer databases from dBase to the first versions of FileMaker. His database clients have included Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Young & Rubicam (advertising); and many small and nonprofit organizations, primarily in publishing, production, and management. Feiler's books include the following:
- Sams Teach Yourself Objective-C in 24 Hours (Sams/Pearson)
- Data-Driven iOS Apps for iPad and iPhone with FileMaker Pro, Bento by FileMaker, and FileMaker Go (Sams/Pearson)
- FileMaker 12 in Depth (Sams/Pearson)
- Using FileMaker Bento (Sams/Pearson)
- iWork for Dummies (Wiley)
- Sams Teach Yourself Drupal in 24 Hours (Sams/Pearson)
- Get Rich with Apps! Your Guide to Reaching More Customers and Making Money NOW (McGraw-Hill)
- Database-Driven Web Sites (Harcourt)
- How to Do Everything with Web 2.0 Mashups (McGraw-Hill)
- The Bento Book (Sams/Pearson)
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781119022220 |
| ISBN 10 | 1119022223 |
| Title | Swift For Dummies |
| Author | Jesse Feiler |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | John Wiley & Sons Inc |
| Year published | 2015-02-17 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |