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The Ultimate iOS Interview Playbook

You're reading from   The Ultimate iOS Interview Playbook Conquer Swift, frameworks, design patterns, and app architecture for your dream job

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803246314
Length 320 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Everything about Interviews
2. Chapter 1: Before the Interview FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Going through the Interview Process 4. Chapter 3: Developer Branding 5. Part 2: Swift Language and Coding
6. Chapter 4: Data Structures and Algorithms 7. Chapter 5: The Swift Programming Language 8. Chapter 6: Managing Your Code 9. Part 3: The Frameworks
10. Chapter 7: Building Great User Experiences with UIKit 11. Chapter 8: SwiftUI and Declarative Programming 12. Chapter 9: Understanding Persistent Memory 13. Chapter 10: Libraries Management 14. Part 4: Design and Architecture
15. Chapter 11: Design Patterns to Solve Complex Questions 16. Chapter 12: Drilling into App Architecture 17. Chapter 13: Acing the Coding Assessment 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Learning the importance of data structures

Data structures are the building blocks of our iOS development. In fact, data structures are the building blocks of many programming languages, and having a deep understanding in that area is the key to success in development and, therefore, passing an iOS interview.

What are considered to be data structures? Well, classes, structs, arrays, dictionaries, and sets are all examples of data structures.

But what precisely makes data structures so important? Here are a couple of reasons why data structures are an integral part of an iOS interview. Let’s list them before we go over some interview questions.

Increasing efficiency

We always have shortages and constraints when we discuss resources. Even though iOS devices have become much more powerful in the last few years, iOS development is no exception to the need for efficiency.

Each data structure has its own strength in terms of time and space complexity; therefore, it...

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