Swift 3 for Absolute Beginners

✍ Scribed by Gary Bennett, Brad Lees (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 334
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is perfect for those with no programming background, those with some programming experience but no object-oriented experience, or those that have a great idea for an app but haven’t programmed since school, and it is now updated for Swift 3.

Gary Bennett and Brad Lees are full-time professional iOS developers and have developed a broad spectrum of apps for Fortune 500 companies. The authors have taken their combined 12 years of writing apps, teaching online iOS courses, the experience from their first three iOS books, along with their online instruction and free online forum at XcelMe.com to create an excellent training book.

Many people have a difficult time believing they can learn to write iOS apps or just staying motivated through learning the process. This book, along with the free, live online training sessions, will help readers stay motivated and overcome obstacles while they learn to be great iOS developers.

What you’ll learn

Using Swift Playgrounds to learn iOS development quickly

What is Object Oriented Programming

What are Swift classes, properties, and functions

Proper user interface and user experience design

Swift data types: integers, floats, strings, booleans

How to use Swift data collections: arrays and dictionaries

Boolean logic, comparing data, and flow control

Writing iPhone and Watch apps from scratch

Introduction to HealthKit

Who this book is for

This book is for anyone who wants to learn to develop apps for the Mac, iPhone, and iPad, and Watch using the Swift programming language. No previous programming experience is necessary.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Becoming a Great iOS Developer....Pages 1-10
Programming Basics....Pages 11-22
It’s All About the Data....Pages 23-36
Making Decisions, Program Flow, and App Design....Pages 37-57
Object-Oriented Programming with Swift....Pages 59-75
Learning Swift and Xcode....Pages 77-96
Swift Classes, Objects, and Methods....Pages 97-123
Programming Basics in Swift....Pages 125-149
Comparing Data....Pages 151-163
Creating User Interfaces....Pages 165-191
Storing Information....Pages 193-218
Protocols and Delegates....Pages 219-236
Introducing the Xcode Debugger....Pages 237-250
A Swift iPhone App....Pages 251-269
Apple Watch and WatchKit....Pages 271-295
A Swift HealthKit iPhone App....Pages 297-315
Back Matter....Pages 317-322

✦ Subjects

Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters;Programming Techniques