Bring the power of functional programming to Swift to develop clean, smart, scalable and reliable applications. About This Book Written for the latest version of Swift, this is a comprehensive guide that introduces iOS, Web and macOS developers to the all-new world of functional programming that has so far been alien to them Get familiar with using functional programming alongside existing OOP techniques so you can get the best of both worlds and develop clean, robust, and scalable code Develop a case study on example backend API with Swift and Vapor Framework and an iOS application with Functional Programming, Protocol-Oriented Programming, Functional Reactive Programming, and Object-Oriented Programming techniques Who This Book Is For Meant for a reader who knows object-oriented programming, has some experience with Objective-C/Swift programming languages and wants to further enhance his skills with functional programming techniques with Swift 3.x. What You Will Learn Understand what functional programming is and why it matters Understand custom operators, function composition, currying, recursion, and memoization Explore algebraic data types, pattern matching, generics, associated type protocols, and type erasure Get acquainted with higher-kinded types and higher-order functions using practical examples Get familiar with functional and non-functional ways to deal with optionals Make use of functional data structures such as semigroup, monoid, binary search tree, linked list, stack, and lazy list Understand the importance of immutability, copy constructors, and lenses Develop a backend API with Vapor Create an iOS app by combining FP, OOP, FRP, and POP paradigms In Detail Swift is a multi-paradigm programming language enabling you to tackle different problems in various ways. Understanding each paradigm and knowing when and how to utilize and combine them can lead to a better code base. Functional programming (FP) is an important paradigm that empowers us with declarative development and makes applications more suitable for testing, as well as performant and elegant. This book aims to simplify the FP paradigms, making them easily understandable and usable, by showing you how to solve many of your day-to-day development problems using Swift FP. It starts with the basics of FP, and you will go through all the core concepts of Swift and the building blocks of FP. You will also go through important aspects, such as function composition and currying, custom operator definition, monads, functors, applicative functors,memoization, lenses, algebraic data types, type erasure, functional data structures, functional reactive programming (FRP), and protocol-oriented programming(POP). You will then learn to combine those techniques to develop a fully functional iOS application from scratch Style and approach An easy-to-follow guide that is full of hands-on coding examples of real-world applications. Each topic is explained sequentially and placed in context, and for the more inquisitive, there are more details of the concepts used. It introduces the Swift language basics and functional programming techniques in simple, non-mathematical vocabulary with examples in Swift.

Explore functional programming and discover new ways of thinking about code. You know you need to master functional programming, but learning one functional language is only the start. In this book, through articles drawn from PragPub magazine and articles written specifically for this book, you'll explore functional thinking and functional style and idioms across languages. Led by expert guides, you'll discover the distinct strengths and approaches of Clojure, Elixir, Haskell, Scala, and Swift and learn which best suits your needs. Contributing authors: Rich Hickey, Stuart Halloway, Aaron Bedra, Michael Bevilacqua-Linn, Venkat Subramaniam, Paul Callaghan, Jose Valim, Dave Thomas, Natasha Murashev, Tony Hillerson, Josh Chisholm, and Bruce Tate. Functional programming is on the rise because it lets you write simpler, cleaner code, and its emphasis on immutability makes it ideal for maximizing the benefits of multiple cores and distributed solutions. So far nobody's invented the perfect functional language - each has its unique strengths. In Functional Programming: A PragPub Anthology, you'll investigate the philosophies, tools, and idioms of five different functional programming languages. See how Swift, the development language for iOS, encourages you to build highly scalable apps using functional techniques like map and reduce. Discover how Scala allows you to transition gently but deeply into functional programming without losing the benefits of the JVM, while with Lisp-based Clojure, you can plunge fully into the functional style. Learn about advanced functional concepts in Haskell, a pure functional language making powerful use of the type system with type inference and type classes. And see how functional programming is becoming more elegant and friendly with Elixir, a new functional language built on the powerful Erlang base.The industry has been embracing functional programming more and more, driven by the need for concurrency and parallelism. This collection of articles will lead you to mastering the functional approach to problem solving. So put on your explorer's hat and prepare to be surprised. The goal of exploration is always discovery. What You Need: Familiarity with one or more programming languages.

Build fast and powerful applications by exploiting the power of protocol-oriented programming in SwiftAbout This Book• The only book that shows how to harness the power of Protocol-Oriented Programming in Swift to build real-world applications, • Get familiar with the protocol focused approach of application development, • Increase the overall productivity and performance of applications with Protocol Oriented Programming.Who This Book Is ForThis book is for Swift developers who want to learn and implement protocol oriented programming in their real world applications.What You Will Learn• The difference between Object-Oriented programming and Protocol-Oriented programming• The difference between reference and value types and when to use each• How we can leverage tuples to reduce the complexity of our code• What are protocols and how to use them• How to implement protocol extensions to create a very flexible code base• How to implement several design patterns in a Protocol-Oriented approach• How to solve real world design issue with protocol oriented programmingIn DetailAt the heart of Swift's design is an incredibly powerful idea: protocol-oriented programming. Its many benefits include better code maintainability, increased developer productivity and superior application performance. The book will teach the reader how to apply the ideas behind the protocol oriented programing paradigm to improve the code they write.This book will introduce the readers to the world of protocol-oriented programming in Swift and will demonstrate the ideas behind this new programming paradigm with real world examples. In addition to learning the concepts of Protocol Oriented programming, it also shows the reader how to reduce the complexity of their codebase using protocol extensions. Beginning with how to create simple protocols, readers will learn how to extend protocols and also to assign behaviors to them.By the end of this book readers will be able to harness the power of protocol-oriented programming to build real world applications.Style and approachIn its latest release of Swift, Apple has introduced Protocol Extensions as a new feature at the heart of Swifts design making Swift 2 a protocol-oriented language. Protocol oriented programming being a less explored OOP paradigm, there is little guidance on hot to take advantage of protocol extensions in real-world applications. In addition to offering an in-depth coverage of protocol oriented programming and its concepts, this book also explains how a developer can leverage these features to build powerful, real-world applications

Advanced Swift takes you through Swift's features, from low-level programming to high-level abstractions. In this book, we'll write about advanced concepts in Swift programming. If you have read the Swift Programming Guide, and want to explore more, this book is for you. Swift is a great language for systems programming, but also lends itself for very high-level programming. We'll explore both high-level topics (for example, programming with generics and protocols), as well as low-level topics (for example, wrapping a C library and string internals).

Summary Now updated for Swift 5! Swift is more than just a fun language to build iOS applications with. It features a host of powerful tools that, if effectively used, can help you create even better apps with clean, crystal-clear code and awesome features. Swift in Depth is designed to help you unlock these tools and quirks and get developing next-gen apps, web services, and more! Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology It's fun to create your first toy iOS or Mac app in Swift. Writing secure, reliable, professional-grade software is a different animal altogether. The Swift language includes an amazing set of high-powered features, and it supports a wide range of programming styles and techniques. You just have to roll up your sleeves and learn Swift in depth. About the Book Swift in Depth guides you concept by concept through the skills you need to build professional software for Apple platforms, such as iOS and Mac; also on the server with Linux. By following the numerous concrete examples, enlightening explanations, and engaging exercises, you'll finally grok powerful techniques like generics, efficient error handling, protocol-oriented programming, and advanced Swift patterns. Author Tjeerd in 't Veen reveals the high-value, difficult-to-discover Swift techniques he's learned through his own hard-won experience. What's inside Covers Swift 5 Writing reusable code with generics Iterators, sequences, and collections Protocol-oriented programming Understanding map, flatMap, and compactMap Asynchronous error handling with ResultBest practices in Swift About the Reader Written for advanced-beginner and intermediate-level Swift programmers. About the Author Tjeerd in 't Veen is a senior software engineer and architect in the mobile division of a large international banking firm. Table of Contents Introducing Swift in depth Modeling data with enums Writing cleaner properties Making optionals second nature Demystifying initializers Effortless error handling Generics Putting the pro in protocol-oriented programming Iterators, sequences, and collections Understanding map, flatMap, and compactMap Asynchronous error handling with Result Protocol extensions Swift patterns Delivering quality Swift code Where to Swift from here

Implement object-oriented programming paradigms with Swift 3.0 and mix them with modern functional programming techniques to build powerful real-world applications About This Book Leverage the most efficient object-oriented design patterns in your Swift applications Write robust, safer, and better code using the blueprints that generate objects Build a platform with object-oriented code using real-world elements and represent them in your apps Who This Book Is For This book is for iOS and macOS developers who want to get a detailed practical understanding of object-oriented programming with the latest version of Swift: 3.0. What You Will Learn Write high-quality and easy-to-maintain reusable object-oriented code to build applications for iOS, macOS, and Linux Work with encapsulation, abstraction, and polymorphism using Swift 3.0 Work with classes, instances, properties, and methods in Swift 3.0 Take advantage of inheritance, specialization, and the possibility to overload or override members Implement encapsulation, abstraction, and polymorphism Explore functional programming techniques mixed with object-oriented code in Swift 3.0 Understand the differences between Swift 3.0, previous Swift versions, and Objective-C code In Detail Swift has quickly become one of the most-liked languages and developers' de-facto choice when building applications that target iOS and macOS. In the new version, the Swift team wants to take its adoption to the next level by making it available for new platforms and audiences. This book introduces the object-oriented paradigm and its implementation in the Swift 3 programming language to help you understand how real-world objects can become part of fundamental reusable elements in the code. This book is developed with XCode 8.x and covers all the enhancements included in Swift 3.0. In addition, we teach you to run most of the examples with the Swift REPL available on macOS and Linux, and with a Web-based Swift sandbox developed by IBM capable of running on any web browser, including Windows and mobile devices. You will organize data in blueprints that generate instances. You'll work with examples so you understand how to encapsulate and hide data by working with properties and access control. Then, you'll get to grips with complex scenarios where you use instances that belong to more than one blueprint. You'll discover the power of contract programming and parametric polymorphism. You'll combine generic code with inheritance and multiple inheritance. Later, you'll see how to combine functional programming with object-oriented programming and find out how to refactor your existing code for easy maintenance. Style and approach This simple guide is packed with practical examples of solutions to common problems. Each chapter includes exercises and the possibility for you to test your progress by answering a quiz

This book will teach you how to use Swift to apply functional programming techniques to your iOS or OS X projects. These techniques complement object-oriented programming that most Objective-C developers will already be familiar with, providing you with a valuable new tool in your developer's toolbox. We will start by taking a look at Swift's new language features, such as higher-order functions, generics, optionals, enumerations, and pattern matching. Mastering these new features will enable you to write functional code effectively. After that, we will provide several examples of how to use functional programming patterns to solve real-world problems. These examples include a compositional and type-safe API around Core Image, a library for diagrams built on Core Graphics, and a small spreadsheet application built from scratch.