Schatz, J: Learning Swift Programming

Introduction 1 Getting Your Feet Wet Building Blocks of Swift Optionals: A Gift to Unwrap Tuples Number Types and Converting Between Them Coming to Swift from Objective-C and C 2 Collecting Data Using Arrays Modifying Arrays Using Dictionaries 3 Making Things Happen: Functions Defining Functions More on Parameters 4 Structuring Code: Enums, Structs, and Classes Enums Structs 5 Making a Game Building a User Interface (UI) The Action-Packed View Controller 6 Reusable Code: Closures What Are Closures? Closures in Other Languages How Closures Work and Why They're Awesome 7 Subscripts and Advanced Operators Writing Your First Subscript Bits and Bytes with Advanced Operators Customizing Operators Making Your Own Operators Bits and Bytes in Real Life 8 Protocols Writing Your First Protocol Animizable and Humanizable Delegation Protocols as Types Protocols in Collections Optional Chaining 9 Becoming Flexible with Generics The Problem That Generics Solve 10 Games with SpriteKit Setting Up the Project The Start Screen Dangerous Ground A Hero to the Rescue Enemies in Motion Spawned Obstacles Smashing Physics 11 Games with SceneKit Creating DAE Files Creating a New SceneKit Project Your SceneKit Files Making the Game Bridging the Gap to Objective-C 12 Apps with UIKit Application Types Loading a Table View Loading Data from a URL

Jacob Schatz is a senior software engineer with more than eight years of experience writing code for the masses. His popular Skip Wilson YouTube channel has helped thousands of people around the world learn programming languages like Swift and Python. Though lately he has been deep into Swift, he also writes volumes of code in JavaScript, Python, Objective-C, and other languages. Jacob is always selectively consuming the latest programming trends. He has a passion for making a difference and is constantly solving problems. He is, at heart, an educator, and enjoys teaching and finding new ways to explain advanced concepts.