Swift 5.8 Language and Reference Guide

Swift 5.8 Language and Reference Guide

The Nuts and Bolts of the Swift Programming Language in One Complete Reference

About the Book

This book is a complete Swift 5.8 Programming Language Guide and everything you will need to learn, reference and experiment the interworkings of the Swift language.

About the Author

Derrick Cassidy
Derrick Cassidy

My love is teaching and writing about technical subjects especially programming languages. I have nearly four decades of professional experience working, teaching and mentoring novice in the field. The programming/scripting languages I know is Objective C, Swift, PHP, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, C, C++, and Java. I have also worked as a Software and Network Engineer for some of the most well known corporations in the world in the past four decades.


My hobbies are playing Golf, reading, travelling the world and still contributing to the open source projects when I have the time.

Table of Contents

Topics covered in the book: The Basics Basic Operators Strings and Characters Collection Types Control Flow Functions Closures Enumerations Structures and Classes Properties Methods Subscripts Inheritance Initialization Deinitialization Optional Chaining Error Handling Concurrency Type Casting Nested Types Extensions Protocols Generics Opaque Types Automatic Reference Counting Memory Safety Access Control Advanced Operators

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