Early Access
Advanced Swift
What is early access?
This book isn’t finished, so we’re opening up early access and continously releasing new and updated chapters as we write them.
Many chapters won’t be copy-edited yet, but you’ll have an unique opportunity to be the first to read the book, and contribute to its development.
You’ll get:
- Immediate access to PDF
- Continuous updates as we release new chapters
- Access to a GitHub repo with the Markdown files
More information available in the FAQ below.
Advanced Swift takes you through Swift’s features, from low-level programming to high-level abstractions.
In this book, we’ll write about advanced concepts in Swift programming. If you have read the Swift Programming Guide, and want to explore more, this book is for you.
Swift is a great language for systems programming, but also lends itself for very high-level programming. We’ll explore both high-level topics (for example, programming with generics and protocols), as well as low-level topics (for example, wrapping a C library and string internals).
What’ll be in the book
Collections
How to use Swift’s built-in collection types and how to build your own
Optionals
Improve the safety and clarity of your code
Generics
Write functions and methods that work on multiple types
Protocols
Use protocols to simplify your code
Strings
How to use strings and how they work with unicode.
Mutability
Swift offers powerful features for dealing with mutability
Memory Management
Learn how value types and reference types interact
Error Handling
Understand Swift’s built-in error handling
Interoperability
Wrap calls to C libraries and present them in Swift using a natural API