Swift Programming Fundamentals: Setting up Your Development Environment

Paul Deitel teaches you how to set up your development environment in Swift. This tutorial is an extract from "Swift Fundamentals LiveLessons: Part I of III (Video Training)" -- 7+ hours of video instruction -- The professional programmer's Deitel® video guide to iOS and OS X development using Apple's new Swift™ programming language and the Xcode 6 IDE.

Follow along as Paul Deitel teaches core Swift programming concepts through his signature "live code" approach. Rather than using code snippets, Deitel presents concepts in the context of complete working Swift programs that run on iOS® 8 and OS X®.

Throughout the video, Deitel emphasizes software engineering best practices gleaned from many years of programming experience.

Note: this LiveLesson is one in a series of three:
Swift Fundamentals LiveLessons Part I
Swift Fundamentals LiveLessons Part II
Swift Fundamentals LiveLessons Part III

Skill Level
Beginner-to-Intermediate

What you Will Learn
Begin by learning how to register for Apple's developer program and download and install the Xcode 6 Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Next comes a thorough introduction to writing simple Swift programs using Strings, Arithmetic Operators, and the if Conditional Statement. Then move on to Deitel's classic introduction to Classes, Objects, Methods and Functions in Swift, followed by an exploration of Control Statements, Assignment and Logical Operators. This is followed by a deeper exploration of Functions and Methods, including an exploration of Enumerations and Tuples. The LiveLesson ends with Deitel's classic presentation of Arrays and Closures.

Who should take this course?
Objective-C programmers who are developing new iOS and/or OS X apps andwho want to quickly begin using Swift in their apps.
Objective-C programmers who are enhancing existing iOS and/or OS X apps and who want to quickly begin using Swift in their apps.
Java, C++ and C# programmers who are new to iOS and OS X development andwho want to start developing iOS and/or OS X apps in Swift.

Course requirements
Familiarity with any high-level programming language, including C, C++, C#, Objective-C, etc...