How can I get started with Swift
Asked on 2024-07-30
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To get started with Swift, you can watch the session titled A Swift Tour: Explore Swift’s features and design from WWDC 2024. This session provides an introduction to Swift, covering its core features and design principles. The session is structured to help you become familiar with the language and understand what makes Swift unique.
Here are some key chapters from the session that you might find useful:
- Introduction - Overview of Swift and its capabilities.
- Agenda - Outline of what will be covered in the session.
- The example - Demonstration of Swift features through a practical example.
- Value types - Explanation of how to represent data in Swift using value types.
- Errors and optionals - Handling errors and optional values in Swift.
- Code organization - Best practices for organizing Swift code.
- Classes - Understanding classes in Swift.
- Protocols - Using protocols to define interfaces and achieve polymorphism.
- Concurrency - Managing concurrent tasks in Swift.
- Extensibility - Extending Swift's functionality with custom types and features.
- Wrap up - Summary and final thoughts on using Swift.
For a more hands-on approach, you can also explore the session Go small with Embedded Swift, which demonstrates how to use Swift for embedded devices, providing practical examples and resources to learn more.
Additionally, the session What’s new in Swift offers insights into the latest updates and features in Swift, which can be beneficial as you start learning the language.
These sessions will give you a comprehensive understanding of Swift and help you get started with writing Swift code effectively.
A Swift Tour: Explore Swift’s features and design
Learn the essential features and design philosophy of the Swift programming language. We’ll explore how to model data, handle errors, use protocols, write concurrent code, and more while building up a Swift package that has a library, an HTTP server, and a command line client. Whether you’re just beginning your Swift journey or have been with us from the start, this talk will help you get the most out of the language.
Go small with Embedded Swift
Embedded Swift brings the safety and expressivity of Swift to constrained environments. Explore how Embedded Swift runs on a variety of microcontrollers through a demonstration using an off-the-shelf Matter device. Learn how the Embedded Swift subset packs the benefits of Swift into a tiny footprint with no runtime, and discover plenty of resources to start your own Embedded Swift adventure.
What’s new in Swift
Join us for an update on Swift. We’ll briefly go through a history of Swift over the past decade, and show you how the community has grown through workgroups, expanded the package ecosystem, and increased platform support. We’ll introduce you to a new language mode that achieves data-race safety by default, and a language subset that lets you run Swift on highly constrained systems. We’ll also explore some language updates including noncopyable types, typed throws, and improved C++ interoperability.