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Diving Deep into Swift

By : Jonathan Crooke
Book Image

Diving Deep into Swift

By: Jonathan Crooke

Overview of this book

Swift is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled programming language developed by Apple Inc. for iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and Linux. This course takes you deep into the Swift language. It aims to take you beyond the fluency you need for everyday Swift development, and towards becoming a true master and understand how the language works at a deep level. You will learn Swift development, mostly using Xcode on Apple platforms, along with the ability to port your knowledge to Ubuntu Linux. You will learn stylish tricks to write elegant, professional and powerful Swift code. With this Swift course, you will have a working understanding of how the Objective-C heritage of Apple’s platforms shapes many of its APIs. This is essential knowledge to take you past from an intermediate level into true mastery. By the end of this course, you will be working heavily with Xcode, and will be ready to tackle graphical user interface development on macOS, iOS, watchOS and tvOS. Finally, you will be ready to build your own Swift applications with ease
Table of Contents (6 chapters)
Chapter 2
Managing Concurrency with (Grand Central) Dispatch
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Section 1
Cocoa Concurrency Technologies - Introducing Dispatch
There are a number of task and concurrency management technologies in the Cocoa ecosystem. What are they, what are their characteristics? - Start by outlining those Cocoa technologies, and give an overview of the same - Focus on the Dispatch library. We will give details of its features, and its concepts - Demonstrate the usage of Dispatch's concurrent queues and dispatch groups