Swift for iOS Development Training and Certification

Introduction to Swift and Playgrounds

1. Download XCode
   
2. Understand basic syntax.
   
3. Learn about the playgrounds its usage and how the code is working.

Constants, Variables, and Data Types

1. Learn how to define constants for values that don't change and variables for values that do.
   
2. Learn about Int, float, double and bool variables
   
3. Understand the various data types included in the Swift and how the data types can help you to write a better code.
   

Operators

1. Learn about some of the operators in the Swift language, including basic math operators.
   
2. Learn Arithmetic operators with add, subtract, multiply, divide, and modulus operator
   
3. Learn Comparison operators with ==, !=, >, <, >=, <=
   
4. Learn Logical operators with &&, ll,!
   
5. Learn Bitwise operators and work on bit by bit operation.
   
6. Learn Assignment operators and work on =,+=, ­-=, *=,/=, %=, <<=, >>=, &=, ^=, l=,
   
7. Learn Range operators and work on the closed range, half-open range, one-sided range
   
8. Learn Miscellaneous operators like Unary Minus, Unary plus, Ternary Conditional
   

Control Flow

1. Learn how to use logical operators in Swift to check conditions;
   
2. Learn how to use control flow statements.
   

Strings

1. Learn how to create and store text using the string type.
   
2. Learn a variety of string methods that allow you to compare two strings, access specific characters within a string, and insert and remove values.
   
3. Understand string literals
   
4. Describe the special characters in string literals
   
5. How to initialize an empty string
   
6. Describe string mutability
   
7. How to concatenate strings and characters
   
8. Describe string interpolation
   
9. How to access and modify a string
   
10. Describe substrings
    

Functions

1. Learn how to declare functions with different parameters and return types.
   
2. Describe with functions with return values
   
3. Describe without return values
   
4. Describe functions with optional return types
   
5. Describe local Vs external parameter names
   
6. Describe external parameter names
   
7. Describe Variadic parameters
   
8. Describe function types
   
9. Learn to use function types
   
10. Describe function types as parameter types and return types
    
11. Describe nested function
    

Structures

1. Define structures
   
2. Access structures and its properties
   
3. Describe the best practices of structures
   

Classes

1. Learn the difference between structures and classes.
   
2. Learn about inheritance, superclasses, and subclasses.
   
3. Understand the properties of structures
   
4. Understand the functions in classes
   

Optionals

1. Learn the usage of optional to handle situations with or without data.
   
2. Understand how to unwrap classes; forced unwrapping, optional unwrapping, automatic unwrapping.
   

Collections

1. Learn about the various collection types; arrays, sets, and dictionaries
   
2. Create and initialize an empty set
   
3. Learn to perform a set operation
   

Loops

1. Learn how to create loops in Swift, control the conditions for looping, and specify when to stop.
   
2. Learn To work on for and for-in loop
   
3. Learn to work on While loop
   
4. Learn to work on do-while loop
   
5. Learn to work on repeat-while
   
6. Learn to work on if and if-else loop
   

Type Casting

1. Learn about protocols, its usage and how to write independently
   
2. Learn how to enable objects to communicate with each other
   
3. Understand how to extend protocols for providing shared functionality across multiple types.
   
4. Understanding Typecasting for Any and Any object
   
5. Understanding downcasting
   

Closures

1. Describe and define closures, use them as function arguments
   
2. Learn to use the common functions that take closures as arguments.
   
3. Understand global functions
   
4. Understand nested functions
   
5. Understand closure expressions
   
6. What is the sorted method
   
7. Learn operator methods
   
8. Understand trailing closures
   
9. Understand capturing values
   
10. Understand escaping closures
    
11. What are auto closures

Extensions

1. Learn how to define, usage and applicability of an extension
   
2. Understand swift extension functionalities
   
3. Add computed properties
   
4. Define instance and type methods
   
5. Provide new initializers
   
6. Define subscripts
   
7. Define and use new nested types
   
8. Learn to confirm an existing type to a protocol