Swift training course

Basic swift Concepts

• Introduction to playgrounds
• The basic tools for the course
• Constants
•  in Swift constants are preferred to variables and how Swift passes data between constants
• Strings
• How strings work in Swift, including Swift 5 strings
• Data types
•  Swift is a very strongly typed language so understanding types is essential
• Constant arrays
• Use immutable data collections and their functions
• Constant sets
• How to use sets to remove duplicates from datasets
• Tuples
• This is a data type used in functional languages and allows the use of an ad-hoc data type
• Constant operators
• Understand the basic operators that can be used on constants
• Program flow and control
•  Understand how to control of program operation in Swift and the enhanced features not available in other languages.
• Intervals, ranges and Strides
• Ways of building and comparing ranges and sequences without iteration
• Optionals
• This is a unique feature of swift that allows basic errors to be handled, when no information is returned.
• Function signatures
•  An overview of  functional signatures (concepts)
• Closures
•  The use of anonymous functions and lambdas in Swift and passing functionality (not data)
• Enumerations
•  Basic custom types built of limited data sets
• Constant Dictionaries
• use of key, value datasets in Swift
• Pattern matching
• filtering data, datasets and enumerations using switch

more basics...

•  introduction to basic functions, passing data and the differences with Closures
• Sorted, Map, Filter, Reduce, Flatmap and Zip
• standard functional types implemented in Swift
• Variables
•  how variables should be implemented in Swift and the differences compared to other languages
• Variable operators
• Operators that can only be applied to variable (not constants)
• Variable arrays
•  extra features of variable arrays compared to constant arrays
• Variable Dictionaries
•  extra features of variable dictionaries compared to constant dictionaries
• Variable sets
•  extra features of variable sets
• Loops
•  variable loop structures available within Swift
• Structures
• this covers the basic type that is most important in Swift that by default is always used in preference to classes (all standard types are structures not classes)
• Classes and objects
• how to use basic classes and object that allow Swift to interface with iOS and MacOS
• ARC
• Memory and reference counting in Swift

• Functions

Beyond the basics

• More Enums, structures, classes and init
• a deeper dive into advance features Enums, structures, classes and how to use initialisers
• Observers
• implementation of the observer design pattern in Swift
• Composition
•  Using composition over inheritance in Swift, which is a standard design patten in iOS and MacOS

more beyond the basics ...

• Built in Functions
• suctions that are standard in Swift
• Extensions
•  extending types in Swift including Enumerations, Structures and Classes
• Protocols
•  implementing the interface design pattern is Swift
• Protocol oriented programming (Only available in Swift no other language)
• using extension of protocols to remove the need to use Classes and references to implement inheritance and multiple inheritance
• Standard Library protocols
• protocols that are supplied by default in the Swift language
• Generics
•  using generic functions in Swift to reduce the need for overloading of standard algorithms
• Inheritance
•  Basic Class inheritance as implemented in Swift required for iOS
• More Functions
•  more advanced features of functions in Swift
• Currying / Partial Calls
• implementing a functional design pattern to pass both data and functionality between closures and functions
• Inspection
• Grand Central Dispatch
•  how to implement multi-threading in Swift programs using Apples standard GCD
• Persistance in Swift
• Saving data in swift
• Handeling JSON via Swift
• using the codable protocol to convert JSON to standard and custom types
• interaction with Objective-C
•  how to access Objective-C class instances in Swift
• Access Controls
•  levels of protection within Swift
• Error Handling
•  How to handle errors and exceptions in Swift when one is Thrown

• Using composition over inheritance in Swift, which is a standard design patten in iOS and MacOS