Cosmin Pupăză

Cosmin has been writing tutorials and books on Swift and iOS development since 2014, when the first version of Swift was released. He has been part of influential iOS development communities such as raywenderlich.com and appcoda.com since 2010 and has taught iOS development with Objective-C and Swift since 2012. Cosmin lives in Romania and has engineering degrees in electronics, telecommunications, neural networks, microprocessors, microcontrollers, distributed systems, and web technologies from the technical universities of Cluj-Napoca and Iași. He has worked with many programming languages over the years, but none of them has had such a significant impact on himself as Swift. Cosmin likes to play the guitar or study WW2 history when not coding

Write Shorter Conditions with the Swift Ternary Operator

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Write Shorter Conditions with the Swift Ternary Operator

The ternary operator is a conditional operator that you can use to write complex conditions using just one line of code. It is straightforward to use and powerful.

In this article, I will highlight the most common use cases of the ternary operator in Swift. I will also review the advantages and disadvantages of writing conditions using the ternary operator instead of if-else statements.

Switch Statements in Swift: Selecting Among Multiple Options

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Switch statements compare specific values against different cases and execute the block of code associated with the first matching case. You can achieve the same result using an if statement with multiple else clauses, but switch statements are easier to read and understand at a glance.

This article covers the most common use cases of switch statements. There are other, more advanced features of switch statements that I will talk about in future articles.

Take Decisions in Swift with If Statements and Boolean Operators

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To be able to do anything interesting, a Swift program needs to take decisions based on whether some condition is true or not. This is done through conditionals.

Swift has several conditionals. The most common one is the if statement, which we will cover in this article.

Hello, World! Your First Swift Program

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Hello, World! Your First Swift Program

Learning how to program is not an easy task. But it is straightforward to get started with it by following a very simple Swift tutorial.

The very first program everyone writes is called Hello World. It teaches you the basics of creating and running a program in any language.