Swift Programming For Beginners – No Programming Experience

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Getting started

Lecture 1: Download Xcode from the App Store

Chapter 2: Constants, Variables and Data Types

Lecture 1: Introduction to playground

Lecture 2: Constants and variables

Lecture 3: Introduction to Data Types

Lecture 4: Introduction to String Data Type

Lecture 5: Introduction to Int data Type

Lecture 6: Introduction to Float and Double Type

Lecture 7: Introduction to Boolean Data Type

Lecture 8: String interpolation

Lecture 9: String interpolation continued…

Lecture 10: Good naming conventions to follow

Chapter 3: Swift Operators

Lecture 1: Arithmetic operators

Lecture 2: Integer division and possible errors

Lecture 3: Remainder operator

Lecture 4: Compound assignment operators

Lecture 5: Comparison operator

Lecture 6: Comparison operator – checking for equality

Lecture 7: NOT operator

Lecture 8: How to find out the data types of variables

Lecture 9: Type Casting

Lecture 10: Problem Solution 1 – Swap variables

Lecture 11: Problem Solution 2 – Area and perimeter

Lecture 12: Problem Solution 3 – Calculate Percentage

Lecture 13: Problem Solution 4 – Last digits of a number

Chapter 4: If Statements

Lecture 1: Introduction to If statements

Lecture 2: Else branch

Lecture 3: Nested if statement

Lecture 4: Else…if statements

Lecture 5: Problem and Solution: Maximum of two numbers

Lecture 6: Problem and Solution: Even or odd number

Lecture 7: Problem and Solution: Divisibilty calculations

Lecture 8: Logical AND operator

Lecture 9: Logical OR operator

Lecture 10: Problem Solution: Class marks

Lecture 11: Problem Solution: Divisibility revisited

Lecture 12: Ternary conditional operator

Chapter 5: Switch Statements

Lecture 1: Switch statements

Lecture 2: Switch case – matching multiple values

Lecture 3: Switch range matching

Lecture 4: Switch break statement

Lecture 5: Fallthrough statement

Chapter 6: Arrays

Lecture 1: Introduction to Swift Array

Lecture 2: Reading values from array

Lecture 3: Getting multiple values using closed range

Lecture 4: Array type and Any type

Lecture 5: Merging two arrays

Lecture 6: Adding values to existing array

Lecture 7: Removing values from arrays

Lecture 8: Modifying values in arrays

Lecture 9: Mutable and immutable array

Lecture 10: Copying value from one array to another – reference and value types

Chapter 7: Dictionaries

Lecture 1: Introduction to Dictionary

Lecture 2: Retrieving values from a dictionary

Lecture 3: Adding a new key-value pair to a dictionary

Lecture 4: Updating value in a dictionary

Lecture 5: Removing items from dictionary

Lecture 6: Other dictionary methods

Chapter 8: For Loop, While Loop and Repeat While Loop

Lecture 1: Introduction to For Loop

Lecture 2: Using value of "i" in a loop and the underscore variable

Lecture 3: Looping through arrays

Lecture 4: Looping over dictionaries

Lecture 5: Problem and Solution: Maximum value in an array

Lecture 6: Problem and Solution: Separate numbers into odd and even

Lecture 7: Problem and Solution: Sum the content of an array

Lecture 8: Problem and Solution: Reversed array

Lecture 9: Inner loops

Lecture 10: Break statement

Lecture 11: Continue statement

Lecture 12: Introduction to While Loop

Lecture 13: Beware of an infinite loop

Lecture 14: Repeat while loop

Lecture 15: Repeat while loop example

Lecture 16: Problem and Solution: Separate numbers to array – while loop example

Chapter 9: Swift Functions

Lecture 1: Introduction to Function

Lecture 2: Function parameters

Lecture 3: Multiple parameters of a function

Lecture 4: Returning values from functions

Lecture 5: Calling a function from another function

Lecture 6: Parameter as a let constant

Chapter 10: Optionals

Lecture 1: Introduction to Optionals

Lecture 2: Introduction to Optionals contd…

Lecture 3: Returning nil from a function

Lecture 4: How to work with optional values

Lecture 5: Unwrapping optional values

Lecture 6: Force unwrap optional types

Lecture 7: Implicitly unwrapped Optionals

Lecture 8: Nil coalescing operator

Lecture 9: Multiple optional binding – unwrapping multiple optionals

Lecture 10: Optional Chaining

Lecture 11: Variable scopes