What Is Programming? And How To Get Started
January 28, 2025
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This course is part of Meta iOS Developer Professional Certificate
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It is recommended that you complete the courses on Programming Fundamentals in Swift and SwiftUI before taking this course.
(81 reviews)
Recommended experience
Intermediate level
It is recommended that you complete the courses on Programming Fundamentals in Swift and SwiftUI before taking this course.
Implement an iOS application with search and filtering capabilities.
Implement advanced custom data types in Swift.
Use mocks and fakes to perform unit testing in iOS.
Implement code organization best practices with inheritance, basic protocols and delegation.
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At the heart of any remarkable iOS applies a thorough understanding of the Swift programming language. Embark on a journey to expand your knowledge and skillset with Advanced Programming in Swift. Discover Swift’s advanced custom data types, explore code organization best practices, tap into error handling to improve your program’s performance, and foster an understanding of programming the functional way with higher-order functions like map, filter and reduce. Then, to further understand the inner workings of successful app development, learn how to implement unit tests to ensure that your applications function as intended.
By the end of this course, you will practice creating the functionality you often encounter in apps with large lists of items. You’ll implement advanced programming concepts including higher-order functions to process collections and build your own list in Xcode. Upon completion of this course, you will be able to: • Create custom data types including enumerations and sets. • Organize and optimize your code by using subclassing and inheritance, typecasting and polymorphism. • Discover how to set restrictions in your code using access control. • Create blueprints for your code with optional and required protocols. • Give control and pass responsibilities from one instance to another with delegation. • Employ appropriate error handling approaches, implement throwable functions and catch errors. • Describe what recursion is and identify common use cases. • Implement higher-order functions like map, filter and reduce. • Ensure your applications perform as expected by implementing unit tests. This course is ideal for intermediate learners who would like to prepare themselves for a career in iOS development. To succeed in this course, you need a foundational understanding of the programming fundamentals of Swift and SwiftUI.
Get started with advanced programming in Swift by learning about the advanced custom data types that act as general-purpose programming blocks for your code.
6 videos12 readings5 assignments1 discussion prompt
Discover how to inherit properties and methods with subclassing and explore access control, typecasting and polymorphism, protocols and delegation to better organize and optimize your code.
9 videos11 readings7 assignments
Learn how to throw and handle errors with code, explore how to harness functional programming strategies, and discover unit testing in Swift.
9 videos16 readings7 assignments
Implement the skills you've learned in this course to build your own list with filtering and sorting functionality.
2 videos4 readings1 assignment1 peer review1 discussion prompt
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Reviewed on Oct 17, 2024
The course is greate for learning swift basics to advance.
Reviewed on Oct 6, 2024
The course is excellent, but maybe it needs more time than the one given by default, the final project will take some time to be done.
Reviewed on Dec 19, 2022
This is a valuable course. I learned about the basics/fundamentals of the Swift language, also had good practice in SwiftUI by finishing the challenging project on week 4.
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