The Swift Programming Language Training in South Africa

Delegates for this course need to be competent programmers in another programming language and have an understanding of object-oriented programming principles.

Module 1 - Introducing Swift

• About Swift
• XCode Overview
• Projects and Playgrounds
• Basic Swift Syntax

Module 2 - Data Types

• Primitives
• Integers, Floats, Booleans, Tuples
• Working with strings
• Constants and Variables
• Literals
• Type Aliases
• Optionals

Module 3 - Basic Syntax

• Math and Logic operations
• Defining Arrays and Collections
• Controlling Program Flow with conditionals and loops
• Enumerations
• Nested Types

Module 4 - Functions and Closures

• Defining a Function
• Passing parameters
• Returning single and multiple return values
• Parameter Naming
• Variadic, constant, variable and In-Out parameters
• Closures

Module 5 - Classes and Structures

• Value types explained
• Defining structures
• Assigning structure instances
• Reference Types
• Defining Classes
• Differences between Value and reference types and when to use
• Setting up Initializers and de-initializers

Module 6 - Properties in detail

• Stored Properties
• Lazy and Computed properties
• Working with Property Observers
• Encapsulation?

Module 7 - Methods

• Defining Instance and Type Methods
• Method naming
• Mutating Methods
• Subscripts

Module 8 - Using Inheritance and Polymorphism

• Creating Subclasses
• Overriding Methods, Properties and Observers
• Initialization of inherited types - Chaining
• Casting and subtype polymorphism

Module 9 - Automatic Reference Counting

• Reference Counting Explained
• ARC Under the hood
• Strong and Weak references
• Unowned references
• ARC and Closures

Module 10 - Protocols and Extensions

• What is a protocol
• Implementing a protocol
• Delegation
• Protocol Inheritance
• Checking conformance
• Extending types with Extensions

Module 11 - Generics

• Why Generics
• Generic Functions
• Generic Types
• Constraints

Module 12 - Bringing it all together

• Creating a simple iPhone app with Swift