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Learning Swift

Learning Swift

By : Andrew J Wagner
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Learning Swift

Learning Swift

4.8 (5)
By: Andrew J Wagner

Overview of this book

If you are looking to build iOS or OS X apps using the most modern technology, this book is ideal for you. You will find this book especially useful if you are new to programming or if you have yet to develop for iOS or OS X.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Control flow


Objective-C has many of the same control flow paradigms as Swift. We will go through each of them quickly, but before we do, let's look at the Objective-C equivalent of println:

var name = "Sarah"
println("Hello \(name)")

NSString *name = @"Sarah";
NSLog(@"Hello %@", name);

Instead of println, we are using a function called NSLog. Objective-C does not have string interpolation, so NSLog is a somewhat more complex solution than println. The first argument to NSLog is a string that describes the format to be printed out. This includes a placeholder for each piece of information we want to log that indicates the type it should expect. Every placeholder starts with a percent symbol. In this case, we are using an @ symbol to indicate that we will substitute in a string. Every argument after the initial format will be substituted for placeholders in the same order that they are passed in. Here, this means that it will end up logging Hello Sarah just like the Swift code.

Now, we are...

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