Description

New programming language created by Apple, Swift presents itself as a modern and more efficient alternative to Objective-C. In this training, you will learn how to develop Swift 3 in a MacOS environment. You will discover the basic concepts of Swift 2 and its innovative aspects.

Who is this training for ?

For whom ?

Developers, project managers.

Prerequisites

Training objectives

Discover the basic concepts of the Swift language Create a Swift projectLearn Swift Standard Library Understand how to integrate Cocoa and Objective-C code into a Swift application

Training program

• Introduction to Swift
  • - Why a new programming language in the Apple universe? The different use cases of Swift (Mac OS X, iOS).
  • - The contributions and new features of Swift .
  • - Swift's relationship with classic Apple tools: Objective-C, XCode.
  • - Openness to Open Source and other systems.
• The development environment
  • - Discovery of the XCode environment, new features of XCode 8, migrating from Swift 1 and 2 (Swift Migrator).
  • - Installation and configuration of the development environment, targeting a specific OS version.
  • - Creation of a Swift project and basic operations (editing, execution.
  • - ).
  • - Discovery of the Swift project 'REPL evaluation and development (Read-Eval-Print-Loop).
  • - Practical work Setting up the development environment and discovery of a first project.
• Basic concepts of Swift
  • - Philosophy of language: syntax, memory management, type inference, object or functional orientation.
  • - Classic mechanisms: typing, variables and constants, instructions, functions.
  • - Object concepts: concept of classes, method.
  • - The manipulation of character strings.
  • - Practical work Creation of several applications implementing the concepts presented.
• Swift Standard Library
  • - Types: String, Array, Dictionary and numeric.
  • - Protocols: Equatable, Comparable, Printable.
  • - Free functions and algorithms.
  • - Practical work Implementation of concepts.
• Innovative and advanced aspects
  • - Swift's typing mechanisms, genericity, protocol support.
  • - The concept of a playground (Interactive Playground).
  • - Closures ).
  • - Memory management: constructor, destructor, reference management, lazy instantiation.
  • - Error management.
  • - Multi-threading.
  • - Introduction to graphical interfaces with Swift (Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, iOS) The future with Swift 3.
  • - Practical work Discovery of the Playground.
  • - Putting closures and genericity into practice.
  • - Using the Cocoa and Cocoa Touch frameworks.
• Innovative and advanced aspects
  • - Swift's typing mechanisms, genericity, protocol support.
  • - The concept of a playground (Interactive Playground).
  • - Closures ).
  • - Memory management: constructor, destructor, reference management, lazy instantiation.
  • - Error management.
  • - Multi-threading.
  • - Introduction to graphical interfaces with Swift (Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, iOS) The future with Swift 3.
  • - Practical work Discovery of the Playground.
  • - Putting closures and genericity into practice.
  • - Using the Cocoa and Cocoa Touch frameworks.
• Integration with Cocoa and Objective-C
  • - Using the Cocoa and Cocoa Touch frameworks from a Swift application.
  • - The joint use of Swift and Objective-C.
  • - The three operating modes : Interoperability, Mix and Match, Migration.
  • - Practical work Integration of Swift and Objective-C code.