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Mastering Swift 3 - Linux

By : Jon Hoffman
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Mastering Swift 3 - Linux

By: Jon Hoffman

Overview of this book

Swift is a modern, fast, and safe programming language created by Apple. Writing Swift is interactive and fun, the syntax is concise yet expressive, and the code runs lightning-fast. Swift’s move to open source has been embraced with open arms and has seen increased adoption in the Linux platform. Our book will introduce you to the Swift language, further delving into all the key concepts you need to create applications for desktop, server, and embedded Linux platforms. We will teach you the best practices to design an application with Swift 3 via design patterns and Protocol-Oriented Programming. Further on, you will learn how to catch and respond to errors within your application. When you have gained a strong knowledge of using Swift in Linux, we’ll show you how to build IoT and robotic projects using Swift on single board computers. By the end of the book, you will have a solid understanding of the Swift Language with Linux and will be able to create your own applications with ease.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Mastering Swift 3 - Linux
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
2
Learning About Variables, Constants, Strings, and Operators

Using closures with Swift's array algorithms


In Chapter 3, Using Swift Collections and the Tuple Type, we looked at several built-in algorithms that we could use with Swift's arrays. In that chapter, we briefly saw how to add simple rules to each of these algorithms with very basic closures. Now that we have a better understanding of closures, let's see how we can expand on these algorithms using more advanced closures.

In this section, we will primarily be using the map algorithm for consistency purposes; however, we can use the basic ideas demonstrated with any of the algorithms. We will start by defining an array to use:

let guests = ["Jon", "Kim", "Kailey", "Kara"] 

This array contains a list of names and the array is named guests. This array will be used for all the examples in this section, except for the very last ones.

Now that we have our guests array, let's add a closure that will print a greeting to each of the names in the guests array:

guests.map({ 
    (name: String)...