1785884506
by: Erik Azar – Mario Eguiluz Alebicto
ISBN-10: 1785884506
ISBN-13: 9781785884504
Released: 2016-12-06
Pages: 342
Book Description
Apple’s Swift language has expressive features that are familiar to those working with modern functional languages,but also provides backward support for Objective-C and Apple’s legacy frameworks. These features are attracting many new developers to start creating applications for OS X and iOS using Swift.
Designing an application to scale while processing large amounts of data or provide fast and efficient searching can be complex,especially running on mobile devices with limited memory and bandwidth. Learning about best practices and knowing how to select the best data structure and algorithm in Swift is crucial to the success of your application and will help ensure your application is a success. That’s what this book will teach you.
Starting at the beginning,this book will cover the basic data structures and Swift types,and introduce asymptotic analysis. You’ll learn about the standard library collections and bridging between Swift and Objective-C collections. You will see how to implement advanced data structures,sort algorithms,work with trees,advanced searching methods,use graphs,and performance and algorithm efficiency. You’ll also see how to choose the perfect algorithm for your problem.
What You Will Learn
Get to know about the basic data structures and how to use the Swift REPL
Use the Swift Standard Library collections bridging to Objective-C collections,and find out about protocol-oriented programming
Find out about Swift generators and sequences,and see how to use them to implement advanced data structures such as Stack,StackList,Queue,and LinkedList
Implement sorting algorithms such as Insertion Sort,Merge Sort,and Quick Sort and understand the performance trade-offs between them
See how to implement various binary trees,B-Tree,and Splay Trees
Perform advanced searching methods using Red-Black trees,AVL trees,and Trie trees,and take a look at several substring search algorithms
Get to know about the data structures used in graphs and how to implement graphs such as depth-first search,breadth-first search,directed graphs,spanning tree,and shortest path
Explore algorithm efficiency and see how to measure it
