Thinking in Swift 4

This course is for programmers who know the fundamentals of the Swift Programming Language but haven't mastered the paradigms. To book this course for your group, company, or public event see Booking and Availability.

Much of this fast-paced workshop is focused on functions. We begin by examining the parameters passed to functions and how to maximize power and flexibility at the same time. We finish the day with a look at higher-order functions that produce and consume other functions and closures and discuss four canonical examples from the Swift Standard Library: map(), filter(), reduce(), and flatMap(). In between we explore sequences and iterators and guard against when things go wrong with our code.

We assume that you are an experienced programmer who has spent some time looking at Swift but you aren't yet an expert in Swift. You understand most of the hows and whats of working with Swift and are looking for the whys and wheres.

You need a Mac running Sierra or High Sierra with the latest version of Xcode 9 installed.