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Swift Beginner
Learn the basics of the Swift programming languagePreview the first lesson free — get full access to all 34 lessons.
Beginner Provider : Mark Nair 10 chapters · 34 Lessons · 3h 35m in Arabic, German, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese
Course Description
Swift is one of the fastest-growing computer languages today. Created by Apple, developers use Swift to make apps for iOS, which runs on more than a billion iPhones around the world. Swift is an open-source language, complete with a compiler, a standard library, and an integrated development environment. It also has a package manager to help you build and distribute your projects.
Swift has a focus on safety, speed, and expressiveness with its use of type inference and automatic memory management. It has many powerful features to make your development easier, including generics, automatic reference counting, closures, and optionals. It uses types to ensure your code doesn’t crash inadvertently bypassing information to a wrong data type, and its syntax encourages you to write clean and understandable code. It’s a language that you’ll find easy to learn and easy to master. You’ll use Swift to build projects and apps for iOS, the desktop, and the web, and have fun while doing it!
What You'll Learn
- Explain simple and complex data types in Swift
- Craft program control flow using conditionals, if statements, and loops
- Use functions, including returning values and naming parameters and labels
- Describe how data structures and classes work, including inheritance
- Identify when to use methods and how to implement them
- Work with Swift fundamentals such as variables, constants, tuples, strings, numbers, arrays, dictionaries, enums, and sets
Key Takeaways
- Swift is an open-source language created by Apple, complete with a compiler, a standard library, an integrated development environment, and a package manager.
- Developers use Swift to make apps for iOS, which runs on more than a billion iPhones around the world.
- Swift focuses on safety, speed, and expressiveness through type inference and automatic memory management.
- Swift includes powerful features such as generics, automatic reference counting, closures, and optionals.
- Swift uses types to help prevent code from crashing by passing information to a wrong data type, and can be used to build projects for iOS, the desktop, and the web.
Frequently Asked Questions
What will I learn in the Swift Beginner course?
You will learn to explain simple and complex data types, craft your program's control flow with conditionals, if statements, and loops, use functions, describe how data structures and classes work, and identify when to use methods and how to implement them.
What tools and skills does this course cover?
The course covers Apple Xcode, the iOS SDK, iOS development, iOS applications, and the Swift programming language, and it introduces the command line and REPL.
What can I build with Swift after this course?
Swift can be used to build projects and apps for iOS, the desktop, and the web.
Is Swift hard to learn?
According to the course, Swift's syntax encourages clean, understandable code, making it a language that is easy to learn and easy to master.
What topics are included in the lessons?
Lessons cover a Swift overview, Xcode, type safety, code commenting and readability, variables, constants and tuples, strings, numbers, booleans, conditions, switch statements, loops, arrays, dictionaries, enums, sets, functions, structs, instances, initializers, property observers, classes, and inheritance.
