The professional programmer''s Deitel®guide to Apple''s new Swift programming language for the iOS®and OS X® platforms ¿ Written for programmers with a background in object-oriented programming in a C-based language like Objective-C, Java, C# or C++, this book applies the Deitel signature live-code approach with scores of complete, working, real-world programs to explore the new Swift language in depth. The code examples feature syntax shading, code highlighting, rich commenting, line-by-line code walkthroughs and live program outputs. The book features thousands of lines of proven Swift code, and tips that will help you build robust applications. ¿ Start with an introduction to Swift using an early classes and objects approach, then rapidly move on to more advanced topics. When you master the material, you''ll be ready to build industrial-strength object-oriented Swift applications. About This Book ¿ The Swift(tm)programming language was arguably the most significant announcement at Apple''s 2014 Worldwide Developers Conference. Although apps can still be developed in Objective-C®, Apple says that Swift is its applications programming and systems programming language of the future. ¿ Swift is a contemporary language with simpler syntax than Objective-C. Because Swift is new, its designers were able to include popular programming language features from languages such as Objective-C, Java(tm), C#, Ruby, Python® and many others. These features include automatic reference counti