The Swift Summary Book

A summary of Apple's Swift language written on Playgrounds.

Why this summary?

Apple's documentation is great for learning Swift, but who's got the time to read all that? :smile:

This summary cuts to the chase. It is directly written on the Playgrounds platform, which makes it very interactive. You can tinker around with it as much as you like!

Inside the Box

Once you've downloaded or cloned the repository and you open it with Xcode, you'll find most of the chapters from Apple's documentation, plus a Resources folder that contains extra material. The numbering in each chapter is consistent with Apple's. Chapters with a strikethrough have not been added to the book yet as being considered unimportant. More specifically, you'll find:

Chapters

1. The Basics
2. Basic Operators
3. Strings and Characters
4. Collection Types
5. Control Flow
6. Functions
7. Closures
8. Enumerations
9. Classes & Structs
10. Properties
11. Methods
12. Subscripts
13. Inheritance
14. Initialization
15. Deinitialization
16. ARC
17. Optional Chaining
18. Error Handling
19. Type Casting
20. Nested Types
21. Extensions
22. Protocols
23. Generics
24. Access Control

Resources

• Higher Order Functions

How should I install this?

Getting started with The Swift Summary Book is a piece of 🎂:

1. Just clone or download the repository.
2. You need to have Xcode v8.0 or above. You can download it here.
3. Open the .swift file with Xcode and voilà!

What are the features?

The Swift Summary Book takes advantage of the Playground platform and many of its powerful capabilities:

• The book is made of a single file that contains all chapters inside, which allows for easy access.
• Chapters use the Playground Markup Language, which brings rich documentation to the code examples.
• Every chapter has Page Linking, which allows to go back and forth from one chapter to the next, previous or another that was mentioned with in the chapter.

Keep in mind

The Swift language is still under rapid development, which means that the documentation is changing all the time, and some sections might break at a given time.

You can help too!

• Help me keep this summary :+1: by creating pull requests and issues!
• Share this project and make sure you and others give it a ⭐

You can find me on

• 🐦 twitter: @jkarmy.
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License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2016 Juan Antonio Karmy

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