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Sixth edition of this bestselling book, improved and updated to cover the latest version of the Swift 5.3 programming language

Get to grips with popular and modern design techniques to write easy-to-manage Swift code

Use core Swift features such as concurrency, generics, and copy-on-write in your code

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Over the years, Mastering Swift has proven itself among developers as a popular choice for an in-depth and practical guide to the Swift programming language. This sixth edition comes with the latest features, an overall revision to align with Swift 5.3, and two new chapters on building swift from source and advanced operators. From the basics of the language to popular features such as concurrency, generics, and memory management, this in-depth guide will help you develop your expertise and mastery of the language. As you progress, you will gain practical insights into some of the most sophisticated elements in Swift development, including protocol extensions, error handling, and closures. The book will also show you how to use and apply them in your own projects. In later chapters, you will understand how to use the power of protocol-oriented programming to write flexible and easier-to-manage code in Swift. Finally, you will learn how to add the copy-on-write feature to your custom value types, along with understanding how to avoid memory management issues caused by strong reference cycles. By the end of this Swift book, you will have mastered the Swift 5.3 language and developed the skills you need to effectively use its features to build robust applications.

What you will learn

Understand core Swift components, such as operators, collections, control flows, and functions

Identify how and when to use classes, structures, and enumerations

Use protocol-oriented design with extensions to write easy-to-manage code

Leverage design patterns with Swift to solve commonly occurring design problems

Apply copy-on-write for your custom value types to improve performance

Add concurrency to your applications using Grand Central Dispatch and operation queues

Implement generics to write flexible and reusable code

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Nicholas Jan 15, 2021

I purchased the previous version of this book with a humble bundle a while back so this review will take a moment to focus on whats new in the 6th ed:A chapter about Swift documentation / installing swift was inserted and is now chapter 2. This will help you understand how to work with swift on Linux if you dont have a Mac, HOWEVER sticking to XCode on Mac is the optimal experience.Also new in this verson: error handling gets an added section on multi pattern catch clauses which is new to swift 5.3 and a good addition by the author.Synthesized Comparable conformance for enumerations is new to 5.3 and is also briefly covered in this book.A new chapter on Custom Operators is in this edition. I feel like this chapter is geared toward really experienced developers because it was a bit advanced for where I am in my journey.On the book itself. You dont really need much if any pre-existing knowledge on the topic before you start with this. The book has a chapter on almost every topic ranging from variables, collection types, control flow, to functions and more. The book takes time to explain differences between swift and other languages (such as semi-colons or assignment operators) so that is helpful if you are coming from that background. Towards the end he provides a style/formatting guide which will help you keep your code looking professional when its reviewed by potential employers. The design patterns chapter is cool but every employer has their own design pattern so dont waste your time memorizing these, a general understanding is more than enough.As a final note I would like to say this book is really good at teaching you the concepts of Swift as it stands in 5.3, with example code in the book done in playgrounds. After this book I suggest following along with app building tutorials on youtube to help you build your practical skillset and show you how to apply the really great concepts you get from this book. It can be a little dry reading at times but its straight to the point and I highly recommend reading this if youre trying to really get a grip on the language.

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Andre P. Dec 09, 2020

"Mastering Swift" has been my to go resource for Swift from its First Edition. The brand new Sixth Edition contains all the relevant updates for Swift 5.3, which allows iOS developers to easily keep up with the language evolution. My favorite chapters are "Concurrency and Parallelism in Swift", which focuses on GCD, and "Adopting Design Patterns in Swift".Definitely a great addition to any programming books collection!

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Richard Albury Dec 13, 2020

This book is a pleasant surprise. I breezed through the book in a week, and despite a few years of Objective-C and Swift experience, I still learned a few things.It does a great job of hitting the important aspects of the language while also providing good context, so it’s not just a collection of dry pedagogical exercises. The chapter on swift.org and building Swift is a great introduction to one of Swift’s hidden strengths: an enthusiastic and diverse community of people who care about this open, developer-driven language and the platforms it runs on.I also have to call out the chapter on closures: it’s one of the better introductions to a topic a lot of beginning Swift developers struggle with. The chapter on concurrency deserves mention as well: these two topics are fundamental to master, and the book does an exceptional job with them.Finally, the ending chapter on design patterns provides a good grounding in an advanced topic.Highly recommended. If you had to buy a single book on Swift, this would be it.

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Just Me Dec 07, 2020

I have purchased a copy of almost all of the Mastering Swift books because I find them incredibly informative. The author does a great job of teaching Swift while also covering the most important new features of the language. While the first few chapters are geared towards someone first learning the language, the later chapters are a must read for anyone that wants to master the Swift Language. From Protocol Oriented Programming techniques and Copy-on-Write to Concurrency and Generics, this book covers almost all of the advanced topicsWhen I first received my copy of this book, I went right to the Advanced Operators chapters which is one of the two new chapters added in this revision. This is one of the few books that cover details like the Bitwise operators and custom operators. This chapter is a great addition to the book.Just like previous revisions of this book, I consider this a most read for beginners to the Swift Language and also for experience developers that want to take their knowledge to the next level.

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