Lesson 1, Swift Basics, covers the fundamentals of using the Swift programming language. In this lesson, you'll learn basic Swift syntax and program structure. You'll also learn how to use Swift built-in data types and enums, and how to declare and use Swift variables and constants.

Lesson 2, Swift Operators and Control Flow, shows you how to use the fundamental flow control structures and language elements that form the building blocks of Swift programs. We will specifically cover operators, branching statements, and loops in this lesson.

Lesson 3, Functions, Classes, and Structs, teaches you how to develop fully featured Swift functions, catch unexpected errors, and use asynchronous programming paradigms. You'll learn how to create your own data types, and create object-oriented applications using classes and structs.

Lesson 4, Collections, shows you how to work with Swift's collections, such as arrays, sets, and dictionaries.

Lesson 5, Strings, covers Swift strings in detail. We will create and use strings and substrings, and see the various common operations available for them.

Lesson 6, Functional Programming and Lazy Operations, introduces functional programming and explains what lazy operations are. We will end with an important but often overlooked topic—writing Swifty code.

The first three lessons are written by Rob Kerr, and lessons 4-6 are written by Kåre Morstøl.

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This book is ideal for developers seeking fundamental Swift programming skills, in preparation for learning to develop native applications for iOS or macOS. No prior Swift knowledge is expected but object-oriented programming experience is desirable.

You should have basic working knowledge of computer programming in a procedural/object-oriented language, such as Objective-C, BASIC, C++, Python, Java, or JavaScript.

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Code words in text are shown as follows: "Finally, use the console print function to output the content of each error variable."

Folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, include file names in text are shown as follows: "Launch Xcode as before, and create a new playground named Create a Variable.playground."

A block of code is set as follows:

let name = "John Doe"
var address = "201 Main Street"
print("\(name) lives at \(address)")

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "Choose Blank as the playground template, and then press the Next button."

Important new programming terms are shown in bold. Conceptual terms are shown in italics.

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