You're reading from Swift Functional Programming Ease the creation, testing, and maintenance of Swift codes

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787284500

Length 316 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Swift

Tools

Xcode

Concepts

Functional Programming

Author (1):

Dr. Fatih Nayebi

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with Functional Programming in Swift FREE CHAPTER

2. Functions and Closures

3. Types and Type Casting

4. Enumerations and Pattern Matching

5. Generics and Associated Type Protocols

6. Map, Filter, and Reduce

7. Dealing with Optionals

8. Functional Data Structures

9. Importance of Immutability

10. Best of Both Worlds and Combining FP Paradigms with OOP

11. Case Study - Developing an iOS Application with FP and OOP Paradigms

Preface

Functional programming (FP) is getting a lot of attention as it eases many of the difficulties faced in object-oriented programming (OOP), such as testability, maintainability, scalability, and concurrency. Swift has a lot of functional programming features that can be easily used, but most Objective-C and Swift programmers are not very familiar with these tools.

This book aims to simplify the functional programming paradigms and make it easily usable for Swift programmers, showing you how to use popular functional programming techniques to solve many of your day-to-day development problems. Whether you are new to functional programming and Swift or experienced, this book will provide you with the skills you need to design and develop high quality, easily maintainable, scalable, and efficient applications for iOS Web, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS. Through this book, you'll learn to develop extendable, smart, and maintainable code using functional programming techniques.

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Authors (1)

Nayebi

Dr. Fatih Nayebi has more than 15 years of industry experience in software engineering and architecture in various fields. He has developed numerous applications with Visual Basic, C++, C#, Java, MATLAB, Python, Objective-C, and Swift. He has been designing and developing enterprise and consumer iOS applications since the release of first iOS SDK. He is also an enthusiastic Node, Scala, and Haskell developer. Aside from industry, Fatih earned his Ph.D. degree in software engineering from cole de technologie suprieure, Universit du Qubec by researching on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction, Software Engineering, and Machine Learning. His specialties include applied predictive and optimization models, human-computer interaction, functional programming, machine learning, and mobile application architecture and development. Fatih currently works as a Director, Consulting at CGI Group Inc, Montreal, and continues to his academic research and publications as a postdoctoral researcher at cole de technologie suprieure. You can find him talking on Swift and Functional Programming at meetups such as http://www.meetup.com/swift-mtl/, on GitHub at https://github.com/conqueror, on Twitter as @thefatih, and on Instagram as @thefatih.

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