Mastering Swift 5, Fifth Edition

This is the code repository for [Mastering Swift 5, Fifth Edition](Packt UTM URL of the Book), published by Packt.

Deep dive into the latest edition of the Swift programming language

What is this book about?

Over the years, the Mastering Swift book has established itself amongst developers as a popular choice as an in-depth and practical guide to the Swift programming language. The latest edition is fully updated and revised to cover the new version: Swift 5

This book covers the following exciting features:

Understand core Swift components, including operators, collections, control flows, and functions
Learn how and when to use classes, structures, and enumerations
Understand how to use protocol-oriented design with extensions to write easier-to-manage code
Use design patterns with Swift, to solve commonly occurring design problems
Implement copy-on-write for you custom value types to improve performance
Add concurrency to your applications using Grand Central Dispatch and Operation Queues
Implement generics to write flexible and reusable code

If you feel this book is for you, get your copy today!

Instructions and Navigations

All of the code is organized into folders. For example, Chapter02.

The code will look like the following:

var message: String = "My String"
message = nil)

Following is what you need for this book: This book is for developers who want to delve into the newest version of Swift. If you are a developer and learn best by looking at and working with code, then this book is for you. A basic understanding of Apple's tools would be beneficial but not mandatory. All examples should work on the Linux platform as well.

With the following software and hardware list you can run all code files present in the book (Chapter 1-18).

Software and Hardware List

Chapter	Software required	OS required
1 to 18	Xcode	Mac OS X

Get to Know the Author

Jon Hoffman has over 20 years' experience in the field of Information Technology. Over those 20 years, Jon has worked in the system administration, network administration, network security, application development, and architecture arenas. Currently, Jon works as an Enterprise Software Manager at Syntech Systems. Jon has developed extensively for the iOS platform since 2008. This includes several apps that he has published in the App Store, apps that he has written for third parties, and numerous enterprise applications. Some of Jon's other interests are watching Baseball (Go Sox) and Basketball (Go Celtics). Jon also really enjoys Tae Kwon Do, where he and his oldest daughter earned their black belts together early in 2014.

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