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iOS 10 Programming for Beginners

You're reading from   iOS 10 Programming for Beginners Explore the latest iOS 10 and Swift 3 features

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786464507
Length 678 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Craig Clayton Craig Clayton
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Familiar with Xcode FREE CHAPTER 2. Building a Foundation with Swift 3. Digging Deeper 4. Digging into Collections 5. Starting the UI Setup 6. Setting Up UI 7. Getting Started with the Grid 8. Getting Started with the List 9. Working More with Lists 10. Where Are We? 11. Where's My Data? 12. Foodie Reviews 13. Saving Reviews 14. Universal 15. iMessages 16. Notifications 17. Just a Peek 18. Beta and Store Submission Index

Control flow

In programming, control flow is the order in which your code is executed. When working with Swift, we can use a variety of control statements. Loops, in particular, are useful for when you want to repeat a task multiple times. Let's take a look at a few different types of loop.

The for…in loop

One of the most common control statements is a for…in loop. It allows you to iterate over each element in a sequence. Let's see what a for…in loop looks like:

for <value> in <sequence>  {
  // Code here
}

We start the for…in loop with for, which is proceeded by <value>. This is actually a local constant (only the for…in loop can access it) and can be any name you like. Typically, you will want to give this value an expressive name. Next, we have in, which is followed by <sequence>. This is where we want to give it our sequence of numbers. Let's write the following into Playgrounds:

for value in range  {
  print(&quot...
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