Using Swift Advanced Language Features

Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number
Expertise Level

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Overview/Description
Swift is a new programming language for building OS X and iOS applications. It is based on Objective-C, but it uses features from a range of different languages. In this course, you'll learn how to work with more advanced features of the Swift language. You'll learn how to define properties and methods with enumerations, structures and classes, and use type checking and casting. The course will also cover extensions, protocols and generics, and you'll learn how to implement access control, memory management and use imported frameworks.

Target Audience
Developers who want to learn more advanced features of the Swift programming language

Prerequisites
none

Expected Duration (hours)
2.5

Lesson Objectives

Using Swift Advanced Language Features

start the course

use stored and lazy stored properties in instances of enumerations, structures, and classes in Swift

use computed properties with instances of enumerations, structures, and classes in Swift

use property and variable observers in Swift

define type properties for classes, structures, and enumerations in Swift

use instance methods with instance of classes, structures, and enumerations in Swift

define type methods for classes, structures, and enumerations in Swift

use subscripts with classes, structures, and enumerations in Swift

implement class inheritance with subclassing and overriding functionality in Swift

implement type checking in Swift

implement DownCasting in Swift

implement type casting for Any and AnyObject in Swift

nest enumerations, structures, and classes in Swift

implement optional chaining in Swift

work with advanced operators in Swift

overload operators in Swift

define functions using default and variadic parameters

define functions using variable and inout function parameters

define and pass around function types

introduce extensions and use them to add computed properties to classes, structures, and enumerations in Swift

introduce extensions and syntax, and use them to add initializers and methods to classes, structures, and enumerations in Swift

use extensions to add subscripts and nested types to classes, structures, and enumerations in Swift

use protocols as blueprints for functionality in Swift

introduce generics and use generics to write reusable functions in Swift

use generics to write reusable types in Swift

describe general access level guidelines and describe how to implement custom access levels for specific entities in Swift

implement deinitialization for classes in Swift

describe automatic reference counting (ARC) and describe and resolve strong references cycles in Swift

import a framework and use one or more of its classes in a Swift program

work with advanced features of Swift

Course Number:
sd_swft_a02_it_enus

Expertise Level
Intermediate