Swift Short Course

Build iOS and macOS apps. Master swift through bite-sized, swipeable learning tiles — designed for busy people who want to learn on the go.

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About This Swift Course

This Swift short course on SkillTiles breaks down everything you need to know into 10 structured milestones, each packed with bite-sized learning tiles you can swipe through in under 15 seconds each.

Whether you're a complete beginner or looking to refresh your knowledge, this online swift course uses AI-powered content to adapt to your learning pace. Each tile delivers a focused concept, example, or quiz — making it perfect for commutes, coffee breaks, or quick study sessions.

Covering 70 key topics across 10 milestones, this course takes you from foundations to practical application. Earn badges as you complete each milestone and track your progress on your learning dashboard.

Course Curriculum

Swift Essentials

Variables, optionals, and protocols

variables and constantsoptionals and unwrappingstructs vs classesprotocolsclosuresenums with associated valuesSwift collections

Types & Optionals

Swift's powerful type system

value vs reference typesoptionals and unwrappingoptional chainingguard statementstype inferencetuplesenums with associated values

OOP & Protocols

Classes, structs, and protocol-oriented programming

classes vs structsinheritance and overridingprotocol definitionsprotocol extensionsprotocol-oriented programmingaccess control levelsinitializers and deinit

Closures & Functional

Functional programming in Swift

closure syntaxtrailing closure syntaxcapturing valuesmap, filter, reducecompactMap and flatMaphigher-order functionsescaping closures

Collections & Generics

Work with data structures

Array, Set, Dictionarygenerics basicsassociated types in protocolswhere clausesCodable protocolcustom collectionssubscript syntax

Error Handling

Handle errors gracefully

do-try-catch patternthrowing functionsResult typecustom error typestry? and try!rethrows keyworderror handling best practices

Concurrency

Modern async/await in Swift

async/await basicsTask and TaskGroupactorsSendable protocol@MainActorstructured concurrencymigrating from GCD

SwiftUI Basics

Build native Apple interfaces

declarative UI basicsView protocolState and Bindingnavigation viewslists and gridscustom modifierspreviews and canvas

iOS Development

Build complete iOS apps

Xcode project setupapp lifecyclenavigation patternsdata persistence (CoreData/SwiftData)networking with URLSessionpush notificationsApp Store submission