Programming in Swift: Fundamentals

Introduction

Let’s review what you’ll be learning in this section, and why it’s important.

Swift Playgrounds & Comments

Learn how to create your first Swift playground, what all the various bits are in playgrounds, and how comments work.

Booleans & Comparison Operators

Learn how to use a Swift type called Booleans, which represent true or false values.

Challenge: Booleans

Practice using booleans on your own, through a series of hands-on challenges.

Logical Operators

Learn how to use various logical and comparison operators in Swift to create Booleans.

Challenge: Logical Operators

Practice using logical operators on your own, through a series of hands-on challenges.

Optionals

Learn about one of the most important aspects of Swift development - optionals - and how to unwrap, force unwrap, and bind optionals.

Challenge: Optionals

Practice using optionals on your own, through a set of hands-on challenges.

Conclusion

Let’s review where you are with your Swift core concepts, and discuss what’s next.

Introduction

Let’s review what you’ll be learning in this section, and why it’s important.

Tuples

Learn to group related data together into a single unit, through the power of a Swift type called Tuples.

Challenge: Tuples

Practice using tuples on your own, through a series of hands-on challenges.

Arrays

Learn how to use arrays in Swift to store an ordered list of values.

Operating on Arrays

See how to manipulate arrays with their built-in methods.

Challenge: Arrays

Practice using arrays on your own, through a hands-on challenge.

Conclusion

Let’s review where you are with your Swift core concepts, and discuss what’s next.

Introduction

Let’s review what you’ll be learning in this section, and why it’s important.

While Loops

Learn how to make Swift repeat your code multiple times with while loops, repeat while loops, and break statements.

Challenge: While Loops

Practice using while loops on your own, through a hands-on challenges.

For Loops

Learn how to use for loops in Swift, along with ranges, continue, and labeled statements.

Challenge: For Loops

Practice using for loops on your own, through a hands-on challenge.

Iterating Collections

Learn how to use your existing knowledge of for loops to iterate over collections.

Challenge: Iterating Collections

Practice iterating over collections using loops on your own, through a hands-on challenges.

Nested Loops & Early Exit

Learn how to nest one loop inside another, and even terminate a loop early if and when you need to.

Challenge: Nested Loops & Early Exit

Practice working with nested loops and the break and continue statements on your own, through a hands-on challenge.

Conclusion

Let’s review where you are with your Swift core concepts, and discuss what’s next.

Introduction

Let’s review what you’ll be learning in this section, and why it’s important.

Creating & Populating Dictionaries

Learn how to create and populate Dictionaries, a useful collection in Swift.

Accessing & Working with Dictionaries

See how to access the contents of dictionaries and manipulate dictionaries.

Challenge: Dictionaries

Practice using dictionaries on your own, through a hands-on challenge.

Working with Sets

Learn how to create sets, how to populate them with data and retrieve that data, and how to compare sets to each other with their built-in methods.

Challenge: Sets

Practice using sets on your own, through a hands-on challenge.

Conclusion

Let’s review what you learned in this section, and discuss what’s next.

Introduction

Let’s review what you’ll be learning in this section, and why it’s important.

Introduction to Functions

Learn how to write your own functions in Swift, and see for yourself how Swift makes them easy to use.

Functions & Return

See how the “return” keyword is used in Swift, and when it’s required and when it’s optional.

Challenge: Functions

Practice writing functions on your own, through a hands-on challenge.

Structures

Learn how structures work, and all about their properties and methods.

Challenge: Structures

Practice writing structures on your own, through a hands-on challenge.

Classes

Learn about the basics of Swift classes, and study how they are similar to and different from structures.

Challenge: Classes

Practice writing classes on your own, through a hands-on challenge.

Conclusion

Let’s review what you learned in this section, and discuss what’s next for you in this learning path.

Beginners! If you’ve never created a playground before, or if you aren’t sure what while loops or break statements are, this is a great course to get you started. With easy-to-understand lessons and hands-on practice, soon you’ll be writing your own methods and implementing structures and classes with ease.

You’ll start at the very beginning, creating your first playground and learning about comments, tuples, booleans, and operators. Then, you’ll learn to control the flow of your code. For loops, switch statements, enums, oh my! You’ll build on the basics by implementing functionals and optionals through fun, hands-on challenges.

This course isn’t suited for intermediate or advanced developers. If that’s you, check out our intermediate or advanced video courses for more ways to level-up your developer skills!

• Playgrounds
• Comments
• Tuples
• Booleans
• Operators
• For loops
• While loops
• Switch statements
• Enumerations
• Functionals
• Optionals
• Collections
• Arrays
• Dictionaries
• Structures
• Properties
• Methods
• Classes/Subclasses
• Protocols
• Closures
• Initializers
• Memory management