Professional Swift

Written for the experienced programmer, Professional Swift provides a code-intensive, practical guide to best practices for designing and building applications for the Mac and iPhone using Apple’s Swift programming language. The book covers the following:

Section I: Building Applications With Swift

• Language Overview
• Writing a Swift Program
• Deploying and Debugging Swift Programs
• Concurrency in Swift
• Interfacing with Web Services
• Storing Data with Core Data

Section II: Advanced Swift Concepts

• Extending Classes
• Advanced Data Types
• Bridging Swift and Objective-C
• Advanced Debugging in Swift
• The Swift Runtime

About the author

Michael Dippery is an avid Objective-C programmer who has written a number of libraries and other open source code for both Mac and iOS. He has contributed to many popular Mac open source projects, including Adium and Colloquy, and has worked professionally with languages as diverse as Python, Java, Scala, and VBScript. Michael has a passion for the theory and implementation of programming languages and compilers.

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