Swift Pocket Reference 1st Edition

by Anthony Gray (Author)

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Get quick answers for developing and debugging applications with Swift, Apple’s multi-paradigm programming language. This pocket reference is the perfect on-the-job tool for learning Swift’s modern language features, including type safety, generics, type inference, closures, tuples, automatic memory management, and support for Unicode.Designed to work with Cocoa and Cocoa Touch, Swift can be used in tandem with Objective-C, and either of these languages can call APIs implemented in the other. Swift is still evolving, but it’s clear that Apple sees it as the future language of choice for iOS and OS X software development.Topics include:Swift’s Run-Eval-Print-Loop (REPL) and interactive playgroundsSupported data types, such as strings, arrays, and dictionariesVariables and constantsProgram flow: loops and conditional executionClasses, structures, enumerations, functions, and protocolsClosures: similar to blocks in Objective-C and lambdas in C#Optionals: values that can explicitly

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Anthony Gray (but you can call him Tony) has a long history working in tertiary education, where he’s provided technical and systems support for academic and research staff, and some very smart students. He loves to teach, with his favorite subjects being Operating Systems, Computer Graphics and Animation with OpenGL, and most recently Mobile Development for iOS. In his spare time, he writes software to scratch his own itch, some of which is available at squidman.net. Secretly he pines for the days when you could hand-code assembler for your 6502, and occasionally writes emulators so he can do just that.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (January 6, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 186 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1491915420
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1491915424
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.3 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.25 x 0.5 x 7 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #3,362,304 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #302 in Swift Programming Language
- #379 in Apple Programming
- #762 in Macintosh Operating System

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Nathan Birkholz

Essential Companion for Swift Programming

Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2015

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Truly useful reference if you know the language and just want access to syntax. I actually find a lot of things in the book that I have missed in the official documentation and the Apple Swift book because the information in this is so very clearly presented. I own a lot of Swift books already, but this is the most-used. Not useful if you are new to programming, note, or if you are new to object-oriented programming, but you shouldn't be buying a pocket guide in these instances.

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Charles A

Reads more like a tutorial

Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2015

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Reads more like a tutorial, which is a bit strange. Not sure if it was pulled and skimmed from a book or what. Different than a lot of really great Pocket References (Python, JavaScript) but it is still really great.

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Phil

Obsolete, plus there's a more recent e-book version for free on the O'Reilly web site.

Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2018

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Out of date. Ditch it.

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Appmancer

Good sidekick to other books about learing Swift

Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2015

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The title accuratly describes this book. It makes an ideal companion to other 'how to program in Swift' books.
I found the index particularly good. Recommended.

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Allen_TX_Reviewer

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2015

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Great pocket reference. Very nice index. Worth every cent!

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rupert ravens

Perfect reference to keep by your side when working on ...

Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2015

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Perfect reference to keep by your side when working on code. Even though there are many reference online... always nice to be able to just flip to just what I need... Swift(ly)

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Stephen B. Waters

Well done

Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2015

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Concise, precise, and accurate.

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geovanni cortes

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2015

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i love this book is really small to carry anywhere great book

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Danny

Organised and thorough introduction, sadly well out of date

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 3, 2015

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Updated review, 2016 (3 stars):

Swift has acquired numerous breaking changes in syntax since this book was written.

Original review, 2015 (5 stars):

Pocket references are often a good way to get started when you already know a language from the same family. If you've used Objective-C or Xamarin for a while, then this book is a good introduction to Swift.

Andrew Andreev

Well structured but obsolete. The Error Handling, as ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 23, 2016

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Well structured but obsolete. The Error Handling, as a key process, is not explained at all.
Still, this book can be used as a quick reference to the language semantics.

Satisfaisant

Reviewed in France on August 11, 2015

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Petit ouvrage assez pratique, mais dont il ne faut pas attendre des miracles : il n'est ni complet, ni très didactique ; ce n'est qu'un simple aide-mémoire.

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SamSol

Five Stars

Reviewed in India on September 18, 2015

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I loved the size of book and the content of theory. Explained very well. Must buy.

dav

Parfait !

Reviewed in France on April 13, 2015

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Conforme à mes attentes (livraison, état, ...). Parfait !
En ce qui concerne le contenu du livre : très utile de l'avoir sous la main pour programmer.

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