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In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, Sams Teach Yourself Swift in 24 Hours, Second Edition, will teach you how to build next-generation OS X and iOS apps with Apple’s Swift 2 programming language. This book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach helps you quickly master Swift 2’s core concepts, structure, and syntax and use Swift to write safe, powerful, modern code. In just a few hours you’ll be applying features such as extensions, closures, protocols, and generics. Every lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, giving you a rock-solid foundation for real-world success.

Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common Swift 2 programming tasks.

Practical, hands-on examples show you how to apply what you learn.

Quizzes and exercises help you test your knowledge and stretch your skills.

Notes and tips point out shortcuts and solutions.

Learn how to…

Get started with Swift 2.0’s Xcode 7 development environment

Master Swift’s fundamental data types

Use operators to change, assign, combine, check, or verify values

Retain data and preferences in memory with arrays, sets, and dictionaries

Control program flow, modify execution paths, and iterate code

Perform complex actions concisely with Swift 2.0’s improved functions

Work with higher-order functions and closures

Harness the power of structs, enums, classes, and class inheritance

Take advantage of Swift’s advanced memory allocation and references

Use protocols to define behavior and explore Protocol-Oriented Programming

Add type functionality with extensions

Smoothly handle errors

Leverage the power of generics to create flexible and reusable code

Interoperate with Objective-C code

Get started with Functional Programming approaches and thinking functionally