Swift 2 for Absolute Beginners

1. Front Matter

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2. Becoming a Great iOS Developer

   • Gary Bennett, Brad Lees

   Pages 1-10

3. Programming Basics

   • Gary Bennett, Brad Lees

   Pages 11-23

4. It’s All About the Data

   • Gary Bennett, Brad Lees

   Pages 25-39

5. Making Decisions, Program Flow, and App Design

   • Gary Bennett, Brad Lees

   Pages 41-63

6. Object-Oriented Programming with Swift

   • Gary Bennett, Brad Lees

   Pages 65-82

7. Learning Swift and Xcode

   • Gary Bennett, Brad Lees

   Pages 83-104

8. Swift Classes, Objects, and Methods

   • Gary Bennett, Brad Lees

   Pages 105-129

9. Programming Basics in Swift

   • Gary Bennett, Brad Lees

   Pages 131-156

10. Comparing Data

    • Gary Bennett, Brad Lees

    Pages 157-171

11. Creating User Interfaces

    • Gary Bennett, Brad Lees

    Pages 173-197

12. Storing Information

    • Gary Bennett, Brad Lees

    Pages 199-229

13. Protocols and Delegates

    • Gary Bennett, Brad Lees

    Pages 231-245

14. Introducing the Xcode Debugger

    • Gary Bennett, Brad Lees

    Pages 247-261

15. A Swift iPhone App

    • Gary Bennett, Brad Lees

    Pages 263-279

16. Apple Watch and watchKit

    • Gary Bennett, Brad Lees

    Pages 281-304

17. A Swift HealthKit iPhone App

    • Gary Bennett, Brad Lees

    Pages 305-324

18. Back Matter

    Pages 325-330

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Swift 2 for Absolute Beginners is perfect for those with no programming background, those with some programming experience but no object-oriented experience, or those that have a great idea for an app but haven’t programmed since school, and it is now updated for Swift 2.

Gary Bennett and Brad Lees are full-time professional iOS developers and have developed a broad spectrum of apps for Fortune 500 companies. The authors have taken their combined 12 years of writing apps, teaching online iOS courses, the experience from their first three iOS books, along with their online instruction and free online forum at XcelMe.com to create an excellent training book.

Many people have a difficult time believing they can learn to write iOS apps or just staying motivated through learning the process. This book, along with the free, live online training sessions, helps students stay motivated and overcome obstacles while they learn to be great iOS developers.

strongGary Bennett/strong is president of a href="http://www.xcelMe.com"xcelMe.com/a. xcelMe teaches iPhone/iPad programming courses online. Gary has taught hundreds of students how to develop iPhone/iPad apps, and has several very popular apps on the iTunes App Store. Gary's students have some of the best-selling apps on the iTunes App Store. Gary also worked for 25 years in the technology and defense industries. He served 10 years in the U.S. Navy as a nuclear engineer aboard two nuclear submarines. After leaving the Navy, Gary worked for several companies as a software developer, chief information officer, and resident. As CIO, he helped take VistaCare public in 2002. Gary also co-authored emiPhone Cool Projects/em for Apress. Gary lives in Scottsdale, Arizona with his wife, Stefanie, and their four children.

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