Swift for the Really Impatient

Foreword xi
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xv
About the Authors xvi
Chapter 1: Introducing Swift 1
1.1 Basic Syntax 2
1.1.1 Variables and Constants 2
1.1.2 String Interpolation 5
1.1.3 Control Flow 6
1.2 Basic Data Types 10
1.2.1 Int 10
1.2.2 Double and Float 12
1.2.3 Bool 13
1.2.4 Strings 14
1.2.5 Arrays 15
1.2.6 Dictionaries 19
Exercises 20
Chapter 2: Diving Deeper into Swift's Syntax 21
2.1 Optionals 22
2.2 Generics 25
2.3 Type Annotations and Type Inference 28
2.4 Functions and Closures 29
2.4.1 Global Functions 30
2.4.2 Nested Functions 30
2.4.3 Closure Expressions 31
2.5 Tuples 32
2.6 switch Statements and Pattern Matching 34
Exercises 37
Chapter 3: Objects and Classes 39
3.1 Enumerations 41
3.2 Classes 45
3.3 Structures 49
3.4 Subclassing 51
3.5 Overloading 52
3.6 Overriding 54
3.7 Initialization 55
3.8 Properties 57
3.8.1 Computed Properties 59
3.8.2 Property Observers 60
3.8.3 lazy Properties 62
3.9 Subscripting 63
3.10 Protocols 65
3.11 Extensions 67
3.12 Access Control 68
Exercises 73
Chapter 4: Optionals 75
4.1 Optionals and nil 76
4.2 Validity Checking, Optional Binding, and Forced Unwrapping 78
4.3 Optional Chaining 81
4.4 Implicitly Unwrapped Optionals 86
Exercises 88
Chapter 5: Generics 91
5.1 Why Generics? 92
5.2 Generic Functions 92
5.2.1 Type Parameters 93
5.2.2 Using More Than One Type Parameter 94
5.3 Generic Types 94
5.3.1 Associated Types 98
5.3.2 The where Clause 100
Exercises 101
Chapter 6: Functions and Closures 103
6.1 Functions 104
6.1.1 Parameters 104
6.1.2 External Parameter Names 105
6.1.3 Default Parameter Values 107
6.1.4 Variadic and inout Parameters 108
6.1.5 Return Types 110
6.2 Closures 112
6.2.1 Inferring Parameters and the Return Value 113
6.2.2 Trailing Closures 113
6.3 Functional Programming Patterns 114
Exercises 117
Chapter 7: Working with Objective-C 119
7.1 Interacting with C and Objective-C APIs 120
7.1.1 Optional Properties and Return Values 122
7.1.2 AnyObject Types 123
7.1.3 Subclassing, Extensions, and Protocols 124
7.1.4 Automatically Converted Types 126
7.1.5 Selectors and Enums 128
7.1.6 Working with C Code 129
7.2 Working with Swift and Objective-C in a Single Project 130
Exercises 133
Chapter 8: Common Patterns 135
8.1 Nested Types 136
8.2 Singletons 137
8.3 Using Grand Central Dispatch 139
8.3.1 dispatch_once 139
8.3.2 dispatch_async 139
8.3.3 dispatch_after 140
8.3.4 dispatch_apply 140
8.4 Sequences and Generators 141
8.5 Operators 145
8.5.1 Operator Overloading 146
8.5.2 Custom Operators 147
Exercises 148
Index 149