Stay motivated and overcome obstacles while learning to use Swift Playgrounds to be a great i OS developer. This book is perfect for those with no programming background, those with some programming experience but no object-oriented experience, or those that have a great idea for an app but haven’t programmed since school, and it is now updated for Swift 4.
Many people have a difficult time believing they can learn to write i OS apps. Swift 4 for Absolute Beginners will show you how to do so. You’ll learn Object Oriented Programming and be introduced to Health Kit before moving on to write your own i Phone and Watch apps from scratch.
Gary Bennett and Brad Lees are full-time professional i OS developers and have developed a broad spectrum of apps for Fortune 500 companies. The authors have taken their combined 14 years of writing apps, teaching online i OS courses, the experience from their first three i OS books, along with their online instruction and free online forum at Xcel Me.com to create an excellent training book. And the material in this book is supplemented by with the free, live online training sessions.
What You’ll Learn
- Work with Swift classes, properties, and functions
- Examine proper user interface and user experience design
- Understand Swift data types: integers, floats, strings, and Booleans
- Use Swift data collections: arrays and dictionaries
- Review Boolean logic, comparing data, and flow control
Who This Book Is For
Anyone who wants to learn to develop apps for the Mac, i Phone, and i Pad, and Watch using the Swift programming language. No previous programming experience is necessary.
Tabla de materias
Ch. 1: Becoming a Great i OS Developer.- Ch. 2: Programming Basics.- Ch. 3: It’s All About the Data.- Ch. 4: Making Decisions, Program Flow, and App Design.- Ch. 5: Object-Oriented Programming with Swift.- Ch. 6: Learning Swift and Xcode.- Ch. 7: Swift Classes, Objects, and Methods.- Ch. 8: Programming Basics in Swift.- Ch. 9: Comparing Data.- Ch. 10: Creating User Interfaces.- Ch. 11: Storing Information.- Ch. 12: Protocols and Delegates.- Ch. 13: Introducing the Xcode Debugger.- Ch. 14: A Swift i Phone App.- Ch. 15: Apple Watch and Watch Kit.
Sobre el autor
Gary Bennett teaches i Phone/i Pad programming courses online. Gary has taught hundreds of students how to develop i Phone/i Pad apps, and has several very popular apps on the i Tunes App Store. Gary’s students have some of the best-selling apps on the i Tunes App Store. Gary also worked for 25 years in the technology and defense industries. He served 10 years in the U.S. Navy as a nuclear engineer aboard two nuclear submarines. After leaving the Navy, Gary worked for several companies as a software developer, chief information officer, and resident. As CIO, he helped take Vista Care public in 2002. Gary also co-authored
i Phone Cool Projects for Apress. Gary lives in Scottsdale, Arizona with his wife, Stefanie, and their four children.
Brad Lees has more than a decade of experience in application development and server management. He has specialized in creating and initiating software programs in real-estate development systems and financial institutions. His career has been highlighted by his positions as information systems manager at The Lyle Anderson Company, product development manager for Smarsh, vice president of application development for i Nation, and IT manager at The Orcutt/Winslow Partnership, the largest architectural firm in Arizona. A graduate of Arizona State University, Brad and his wife, Natalie, reside in Phoenix with their five children.
Stefan Kaczmarek is a software Engineer with over 20 years of experience specializing in mobile applications, large-scale software systems, project management, network protocols, encryption algorithms, and audio/video codecs. He has experience developing i OS software from webcams to fitness to education to point of sale. Stefan is also the author of
Objective-C For Absolute Beginners.
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