Swift for iOS, Part 1 of 2: Basics

Course description

In this course we are going to give you a thorough introduction into Apple’s most exciting programming language, Swift. You’ll gain a better understanding of why Swift exists as well as why many developers are moving towards it for iOS and OS development. Next you’ll be taught the basics of Swift programming concepts ranging from constancies and variables, arrays and dictionaries, conditionals, loops, functions, and more.

Each LearnNowOnline training course is made up of Modules (typically an hour in length). Within each module there are Topics (typically 15-30 minutes each) and Subtopics (typically 2-5 minutes each). There is a Post Exam for each Module that must be passed with a score of 70% or higher to successfully and fully complete the course.

Prerequisites

This course requires some knowledge of using a Mac UI. Anyone with moderate computer end-user experience should be able to take this course.

Meet the expert

Jordan Hudgens

Jordan Hudgens has certifications for Ruby on Rails, Thinkful; Ruby on Rails, Bloc.io; Front End Development, Thinkful; and AngularJS, Thinkful. He is currently vice president of engineering for TRACKR in Midland, Texas and is working on his PhD in Computer Science from Texas Tech. In addition to Ruby, Jordan works with PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, Postgres, CSS3, C, C++, C#, Objective-C, and Python. He also works with the frameworks Rails (Ruby), Zend (PHP), and Django (Python), plus the libraries AngularJS, jQuery, and Backbone.js.

Video Runtime

98 Minutes

Time to complete

118 Minutes

Course Outline

Basics

Introduction and Background (09:37)

• Introduction (00:18)
• Author's Introduction (00:36)
• Goals (00:53)
• Content Overview (01:19)
• Introduction to Swift (01:53)
• Swift Background (01:35)
• Swift vs. Objective-C (02:36)
• Summary (00:24)

Environment Configuration (10:01)

• Introduction (00:16)
• An Introduction to Xcode (03:12)
• Setting up the Environment (01:34)
• Demo: Download Xcode (01:25)
• Primer: Hello, World (00:45)
• Demo: Hello, World (02:31)
• Summary (00:15)

Constants & Variables (18:33)

• Introduction (00:22)
• Constants & Variables (01:27)
• Demo: Constants & Variables (04:04)
• Demo: String Interpolation (03:17)
• Demo: Dynamic Typecasting (03:25)
• Demo: Concatenation (03:26)
• Demo: Multiple Values (02:12)
• Summary (00:17)

Arrays & Dictionaries (16:16)

• Introduction (00:23)
• Arrays & Dictionaries (01:53)
• Demo: Xcode Keywords (03:24)
• Demo: Arrays & Dictionaries (04:30)
• Demo: The Dictionary Explained (01:56)
• Demo: Using the Dictionary (03:41)
• Summary (00:25)

Conditionals (13:40)

• Introduction (00:23)
• Conditionals (01:04)
• Demo: Conditionals (03:44)
• Demo: Multiple Conditionals (03:22)
• Demo: Switch Statements (04:41)
• Summary (00:23)

Loops (14:06)

• Introduction (00:28)
• Loops (01:37)
• Demo: For-In Loops (03:24)
• Demo: While Loops (02:15)
• Demo: Do-While Loops (03:03)
• Demo: Loops & Conditionals (02:58)
• Summary (00:18)

Functions (16:31)

• Introduction (00:23)
• Functions (02:04)
• Demo: Functions (03:29)
• Demo: Passing in Arguments (04:42)
• Demo: Multiple Return Types (05:23)
• Summary (00:27)