Beginning Swift

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1. Beginning Swift
   1. Table of Contents
   2. Beginning Swift
      1. Why Subscribe?
      2. PacktPub.com
   3. Contributors
      1. About the Authors
      2. Packt is Searching for Authors Like You
   4. Preface
      1. What This Book Covers
      2. What You Need for This Book
      3. Who This Book is for
      4. Conventions
      5. Reader Feedback
      6. Customer Support
         1. Downloading the Example Code
         2. Errata
         3. Piracy
         4. Questions
   5. 1. Swift Basics
      1. Lesson objectives
      2. Swift Program Structure
         1. Hello, World!
      3. Swift Variables and Constants
         1. Declaring Swift Variables
         2. Variables Versus Constants
         3. Type Inference
         4. Variable Naming
            1. Working with Variables
         5. Tuples
            1. Creating a Tuple
         6. Optionals
            1. Declaring an Optional
            2. Working with Optionals
            3. Optional nil Values
            4. Accessing Optional Values
            5. Force Unwrapping an Optional
            6. Conditionally Unwrapping Optionals
               1. Using Optionals
            7. The Swift guard Statement
         7. Activity B: Variable Summary
      4. Swift Data Types
         1. Numeric Data Types
            1. Int on 64-Bit Versus 32-Bit Platforms
            2. Built-In Numeric Data Types
            3. Choosing the Appropriate Numeric Data Type
            4. Declaring and Assigning Integer Variables
            5. Declaring and Assigning Floating Point Numbers
            6. Numeric Literal Grouping
            7. Numeric Type Conversions
               1. Using Numeric Types
         2. Boolean
         3. Character
            1. Assigning a Character
            2. Constructing a Character Literal
         4. String
            1. Instantiating a String
            2. String Concatenation
            3. Extracting Characters
            4. String Length
         5. Activity C: Data Type Summary
      5. Enums
         1. Basic Enum Syntax
         2. Enum with Raw Values
         3. Activity D: Using Swift Enums
      6. Summary
   6. 2. Swift Operators and Control Flow
      1. Lesson objectives
      2. Swift Operators
         1. Assignment Operator
         2. Arithmetic Operators
            1. Standard Arithmetic Operators
            2. Remainder Operator
            3. Unary minus Operator
            4. Compound Assignment Operators
         3. Comparison Operators
            1. Equality
            2. Inequality
            3. Comparison between Two Values
         4. Ternary Conditional Operator
         5. Logical Operators
         6. Bitwise Operators
         7. Nil-Coalescing Operator
         8. Range Operators
            1. Closed Range Operator
            2. Half-Open Range Operator
            3. One-Sided Range Operator
         9. Activity A: Operators
      3. Branching
         1. The if Statement
            1. Condition Lists
            2. Optional Unwrapping with if
         2. The switch Statement
            1. switch Statement Rules
            2. The break Keyword
            3. The fallthrough Keyword
            4. Matching Non-Scalar Values
            5. Multiple Patterns in a Single Case
            6. Using the where Statement within case
            7. Evaluating Optionals with a switch Statement
         3. Activity B: Converting Code from if to switch
      4. Loops
         1. The for…in Statement
            1. Iterating over Objects
            2. Iterating over Array Objects with index
            3. The for Loop where Clause
            4. The break Control Transfer Statement
            5. The continue Control Transfer Statement
         2. The while Loop
            1. The repeat…while Loop
         3. Activity C: Implementing Loops
      5. Summary
   7. 3. Functions, Classes, and Structs
      1. Lesson Objectives
      2. Functions
         1. Defining a Function
         2. Argument Labels
         3. Excluding Argument Labels
         4. Parameter Default Values
         5. Activity A: Implementing a Function
         6. Returning Values from Functions
         7. Using @discardableResult
         8. Function Attributes
         9. Variadic Parameters
         10. inout Parameters
         11. Recursion
         12. Functions as Parameters
         13. Closures
             1. Creating a Function to Receive Content from an Asynchronous Web Service Call
      3. Error Handling
         1. The do…catch Statement
         2. Multiple catch Blocks
         3. Using do without catch
         4. The guard Statement
         5. Activity B: Exception Handling
      4. Object-Oriented Features
         1. Object-Oriented Principles
         2. Classes Versus Structs
            1. Illustration
         3. Defining Classes and Structures
         4. Activity C: Creating a Customer Struct and Class
      5. Summary
      6. Challenge
   8. 4. Collections
      1. Lesson Objectives
      2. Arrays
         1. Working with Arrays
         2. Index
            1. Utilizing Common Operations with Index
         3. ArraySlice
            1. Creating Slices
            2. Creating Slices Using Range Operators
         4. Activity A: Working with Arrays
      3. Sets
         1. Working with Sets
         2. Combining Sets
         3. Comparing Sets
         4. Activity B: Removing Duplicates from a Sequence
      4. Dictionaries
         1. Working with Dictionaries
         2. Activity C: Using Dictionaries
      5. Summary
   9. 5. Strings
      1. Lesson Objectives
      2. String Fundamentals
         1. Character
         2. Collection
         3. Index
            1. Working with String Index
         4. Debugging
         5. Activity A: All Indices of a Character
      3. Using Strings
         1. Creating Strings
         2. Common Operations
            1. Implementing Extra Text Operations on a String
         3. Activity B-1: All Ranges of a Substring
         4. Activity B-2: Counting Words, Sentences, and Paragraphs
      4. Substring
         1. Creating Substrings
            1. Parsing Strings
         2. Converting NSRange to Range
         3. Activity C: CamelCase
      5. Summary
   10. 6. Functional Programming and Lazy Operations
       1. Lesson Objectives
       2. Function Type
       3. Functional Methods
          1. filter
             1. Using the filter Method
          2. map
             1. Using the map Function
          3. flatMap
             1. Using the flatMap Function
          4. reduce
             1. Using the reduce Function
          5. Activity A: Implementing Functional Programming
       4. Lazy Operations
          1. Lazy Sequences
          2. Sequence Internals
          3. Creating Lazy Operations
             1. sequence(first:next:)
             2. sequence(state:next:)
          4. Activity B: Implementing a Lazy Version of a Method
       5. Swifty Code
          1. Naming
          2. Organizing Code
          3. Miscellaneous
             1. Writing Swifty Code
       6. Summary
       7. Further Study
       8. Challenge
   11. Index