Swift Programming for Beginners in Uganda & East Africa

Course outline and learning expectations

This is a tutor-led course. The outline shows what your tutor will cover; teaching materials and examinations are provided directly to enrolled students.

What you will learn

• Explain how Swift source code is compiled and run on a supported computer.
• Use constants, variables, type inference and explicit types correctly.
• Work safely with strings, numbers, Booleans, tuples and optionals.
• Control program behaviour with conditions, switch statements, ranges and loops.
• Store and process data with arrays, sets and dictionaries.
• Design reusable functions with parameters, argument labels and return values.
• Model simple real-world information with structures and enumerations.
• Debug common compiler and logic errors and complete a tested command-line Swift project.

Modules

1. 1

   Start Coding with Swift

   What Swift is, where the language runs and how source code becomes a programInstall and verify the Swift toolchain and editorUse the REPL, a Swift file and a Swift executable packageRead compiler feedback and fix syntax mistakes
2. 2

   Values, Variables and Swift Types

   Constants with let and variables with varType inference, type annotations and type safetyIntegers, floating-point numbers, Booleans, characters and stringsString interpolation, conversion and basic input handling
3. 3

   Operators and Expressions

   Arithmetic, comparison, logical and assignment operatorsOperator precedence and readable expressionsRanges and the ternary conditional operatorSafe calculations, rounding choices and overflow awareness
4. 4

   Decisions, Loops and Pattern Matching

   if, else if and else for business rulesswitch, cases, value binding and where conditionsfor-in, while and repeat-while loopsbreak, continue and labelled statements
5. 5

   Collections and Data Processing

   Create, read and update arraysUse sets for unique values and membership checksStore key-value records in dictionariesIterate, filter, sort and summarise collection data
6. 6

   Functions, Scope and Optionals

   Function parameters, argument labels and return valuesDefault, variadic and in-out parametersLocal scope, reusable logic and tuplesCreate, unwrap and safely transform optional values
7. 7

   Structures, Enumerations and Methods

   Define custom structures with stored and computed propertiesAdd instance and type methodsModel finite states with enumerations and associated valuesUnderstand value semantics through practical examples
8. 8

   Debugging, Basic Testing and Capstone

   Separate a problem into inputs, rules, outputs and functionsUse assertions, print-based diagnosis and focused test casesOrganise source files in a Swift packageReview naming, readability, edge cases and documentation