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Object???Oriented Programming with Swift 2

Object???Oriented Programming with Swift 2

By : Gastón C. Hillar
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Object???Oriented Programming with Swift 2

Object???Oriented Programming with Swift 2

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By: Gastón C. Hillar

Overview of this book

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm based on the concept of objects; these are data structures that contain data in the form of fields, often known as attributes and code. Objects are everywhere, and so it is very important to recognize elements, known as objects, from real-world situations and know how they can easily be translated into object-oriented code. Object-Oriented Programming with Swift is an easy-to-follow guide packed full of hands-on examples of solutions to common problems encountered with object-oriented code in Swift. It starts by helping you to recognize objects using real-life scenarios and demonstrates how working with them makes it simpler to write code that is easy to understand and reuse. You will learn to protect and hide data with the data encapsulation features of Swift. Then, you will explore how to maximize code reuse by writing code capable of working with objects of different types. After that, you'll discover the power of parametric polymorphism and will combine generic code with inheritance and multiple inheritance. Later, you move on to refactoring your existing code and organizing your source for easy maintenance and extensions. By the end of the book, you will be able to create better, stronger, and more reusable code, which will help you build better applications.
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Adding methods with extensions

Sometimes, we would like to add methods to an existing class. We already know how to do this; we just need to go to its Swift source file and add a new method within the class body. However, sometimes, we cannot access the source code for the class, or it isn't convenient to make changes to it. A typical example of this situation is a class, struct, or any other type that is part of the standard language elements. For example, we might want to add a method that we can call in any Int value to initialize either a 2D or 3D point with all its elements set to the Int value.

The following lines declare a simple Point2D class that represents a mutable 2D point with the x and y elements. The class conforms to the CustomStringConvertible protocol; therefore, it declares a description computed property that returns a string representation for the 2D point:

public class Point2D: CustomStringConvertible {
    public var x: Int
    public var y: Int

    public var...
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