Swift Programming Training Overview
Accelebrate's Swift training course introduces experienced Objective-C programmers to the Swift language for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch. During the course, attendees complete activities that include building apps for both the iOS and OS X platforms.
Location and Pricing
Accelebrate offers instructor-led enterprise training for groups of 3 or more online or at your site. Most Accelebrate classes can be flexibly scheduled for your group, including delivery in half-day segments across a week or set of weeks. To receive a customized proposal and price quote for private corporate training on-site or online, please contact us.
In addition, some courses are available as live, instructor-led training from one of our partners.
Objectives
- Understand the advantages of the Swift language and how it differs from Objective-C
- Gain experience using Swift’s data types and standard library
- Build iOS and macOS apps using Swift
- Learn how Swift supports object-oriented development principles
- Become familiar with the advanced features of the Swift language
Prerequisites
- All attendees must have extensive experience with the Objective-C programming language
- Previous experience building macOS or iOS applications using Xcode is assumed
Outline
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Introduction
- Goals of the Swift Language
- Swift vs. Objective-C
- Interactive Playgrounds
- Swift Package Manager
Swift Basics
- Statements
- Constants and Variables
- Type Annotations
- Type Safety and Inference
- Type Aliases
Accelerated Language Concepts
- Types
- Operators
- Strings and Characters
- Control Flow
Collection Types
- Mutability
- Tuples
- Arrays
- Array Literals
- Dictionaries
- Dictionary Literals
Functions
- Parameters and Return Values
- Parameter Names
- Default Parameter Values
- Variadic Parameters
- In-Out Parameters
- Function Types
- Nested Functions
Closures
- Closure Expression Syntax
- Trailing Closures
- Capturing Values
Enumerations
- Syntax
- Switch Statement
- Associated Values
Classes and Structures
- Properties
- Lazy Stored Properties
- Property Observers
- Instance Methods
- Type Methods
- Subscripts
- Inheritance
- Overriding
- Type Casting
- Initialization
- Initializer Chaining
- Deinitialization
- Nested Types
- Extensions
Automatic Reference Counting (ARC)
- Introduction
- Reference Cycles
- Weak References
- Unowned References
Optionals
- Forced Unwrapping
- Binding
- Implicitly Unwrapped Optionals
- Optional Chaining
Protocols
- Syntax
- Requirements
- Protocols as Types
- Delegation
- Collections
- Inheritance
- Composition
Generics
- Generic Functions
- Type Parameters
- Generic Types
- Constraints
- Associated Types
Debugging
- Assertions
- LLDB and the Swift REPL
- Advanced Swift Debugging in LLDB
Interoperability
- Interacting with Objective-C APIs
- Interaction with C APIs
- Mixing Swift and Objective-C
- Migrating an Objective-C Project to Swift
Conclusion
Training Materials
All Swift training students receive a textbook, lab instruction manual, and a course workbook.
Software Requirements
- Mac running the current or immediately previous version of macOS, with 8 GB RAM or more
- The latest version of Xcode (available for free from the Apple App Store)
