What a week! Time to announce the second course this week I’ve written for DevelopMentor along with my co-author Bradley Needham.

Essential Swift iOS and OS X Programming Course

If you’re ready to start building iOS and OS X applications with Apple’s latest language, check out our course.

Here’s some more background on this course.

https://www.develop.com/training-course/essential-swift-ios-and-os-x-programming

When Apple announced the Swift programming language to cheering crowds at WWDC 2014, we knew it would be important. Swift is destined to replace the aging Objective-C language which was introduced over 32 years ago. Swift is built upon three core principles: safe, modern, and powerful. It fulfills these principles by borrowing the best features from modern languages such as Python, C#, modern C++, and others. While Swift adopts modern high-level language features it also improves upon Objective-C’s native performance and is actually faster than its predecessor.

This course is a deep, practical, and hands-on exploration of the Swift language and surrounding ecosystem. You will learn why Swift was introduced. You will see how Swift is a safe, modern, and powerful language. You will learn how to build iOS (iPhone and iPad) applications as well as native OS X applications using Xcode. All of these lessons will be reinforced with hands-on exercises and many example applications built live during class.

There are cross-platform options for building iOS and OS X applications. However, if you are ready to go all in on the Apple ecosystem you need to learn Swift today. This comprehensive course is a great place to start.

Course Outline

Day 1

• Introduction to Swift for iOS and OS X
• Language Basics
• Types and collections
• Functions and closures

Day 2

• Optionals, Optional Chaining, and Generics
• Classes and Structures
• Protocols and Extensions
• Memory management

Day 3

• Day of iOS

Day 4

• Day of OS X

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