Swift is a new programming language used for iOS and OS X Application development. It was developed by Apple in 2010.
What is Swift programming language?
Swift programming language is the best language to develop iOS Applications and Mac OS X Applications.It is a new programming language, introduced by Apple with the new features listed below,
- A programmer writes our code and it immediately executes.
- Swift has syntax like objective-C.
- Swift uses existing Cocoa frameworks.
- Swift is safe and has a safe programming pattern.
Swift programming comes from the various popular programming languages like Python, Ruby and C# etc.
Syntax of Swift programming language
- import Cocoa
- var srt1 = "Hello, World!"
- println(str1)
Syntax of Swift programming language is very similar to Python programming.
Swift provides a range of built-in data types for storing values.They are listed below:
- Int
- Float
- Double
- Bool
- String
- Character
- Optional
Decision making statement
Swift programming language has many decision making statements like C programming language, which are:
- if statement
- if else statement
- leader if else statement
- nested if statement
- switch statement
Types of looping statement in Swift are
- for-in loop
- for loop
- while loop
- do while loop
Data structure in Swift are,
- Strings
- Arrays
- Structures
- Enumerations
Object orientation in Swift programming language
Swift is an object oriented programming language.
Swift supports,
- classes
- inheritance
Swift programming language also supports Dictionaries.
Dictionaries are the special type data type, which accepts the key and value pair.
This article is just a beginning. In further articles, we will learn in detail and develop our first basic Application.