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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 2
Serial Queues
In the previous section we introduced a lot about Dispatch, and its queue types. In this section we will focus in on serial queues, which are really the most powerful type of Dispatch queue - New users of Dispatch will usually assume that concurrent queues are of more use than serial queues. Demonstrate how serial queues are a much more elegant solution to some traditional concurrency challenges - Demonstrate serial queues c to synchronize access to shared collection types - Our last example will be how manual group synchronization can be used to provide detailed control over groups of concurrent tasks