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Mastering Swift 5 - Fifth Edition
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Mastering Swift 5 - Fifth Edition
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Overview of this book
Over the years, the Mastering Swift book has established itself amongst developers as a popular choice as an in-depth and practical guide to the Swift programming language. The latest edition is fully updated and revised to cover the new version: Swift 5.
Inside this book, you'll find the key features of Swift 5 easily explained with complete sets of examples. From the basics of the language to popular features such as concurrency, generics, and memory management, this definitive guide will help you develop your expertise and mastery of the Swift language.
Mastering Swift 5, Fifth Edition will give you an in-depth knowledge of some of the most sophisticated elements in Swift development, including protocol extensions, error handling, and closures. It will guide you on how to use and apply them in your own projects.
Later, you'll see how to leverage the power of protocol-oriented programming to write flexible and easier-to-manage code. You will also see how to add the copy-on-write feature to your custom value types and how to avoid memory management issues caused by strong reference cycles.
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Mastering Swift 5 - Fifth Edition
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Preface
Free Chapter
Taking the First Steps with Swift
Learning about Variables, Constants, Strings, and Operators
Optional Types
Using Swift Collections
Control Flow
Functions
Classes, Structures, and Protocols
Using Protocols and Protocol Extensions
Protocol Oriented Design
Generics
Availability and Error Handling
Custom Subscripting
Working with Closures
Concurrency and Parallelism in Swift
Custom Types
Memory Management
Swift Formatting and Style Guider
Adopting Design Patterns in Swift
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