Computer-Science-with-iOS

Data Structures

🔗 Linked List

📚 Stack

👫 Queue

📶 Heap

📁 LRU Cache
   NSCache

📱 iOS Knowledge

Memory Management
   ARC
   Heap and stack
   Memory segments
   Memort leaks and debugging them
   Retain cycles
   Deadlocks, race conditions, readers writers problem, thread explosion, priority inversion

Reference and Value Types
   Classes
   Structs
   Comparing classes and structs
   Functions
   Initializers

GCD
   Synchronous and asynchronous execution
   Differentiating synchronous and asynchronous calls/functions
   Queues - serial and concurrent
   QoS
   Priority inversion
   Threads
   Combine framework
   Operation and OperationQueue
   GCD APIs:
       Dispatch work items
       Dispatch groups
       Semaphores
       Dispatch Barrier

Pagination

Access Control

Statements
   Loop statements
   Branch statements
   Labeled statements
   Control transfer statements
   Defer statements
   Do statements
   Compiler control statements
   Availability Condition

Types

UIKit
   View hierarchy
   Hit testing
   View lifecycles
   Frame vs. bounds
   UITableView vs. UICollectionView
   UITableView
   UIScrollView

Enums

Higher Order Functions
   Map
   Filter
   Reduce

Closures
   Escaping closures
   Capturing
   Capture lists
   Memory issues with closures
   Scope

Error Handling

Data Persistence
   Core data
   User defaults
   File Manager

Software Architectural Patterns
   App architect intro
   MVC
   Atomic design pattern
   Protocol oriented programming
   Networking

App Frameworks / Libraries

Testing

SwiftUI
   View Construction
   Compared to UIKit
   View Layout

Optionals
   If let
   If var
   While let
   While var
   Doubly nested optionals
   Optional chaining
   Nil-coalescing operator

Communication Patterns
   Delegates and protocols
   Completion handlers
   Singleton
   Dependancy injection
   Notification center

Swift Keywords
   @objc
   @escaping
   @available
   @final
   @discardableResult
   @propertyWrapper
   Declarations
   Type aliases
   Stored Type Properties and Computed Properties
   Instance Properties and Type Properties
   Identifiers

Collection Protocols

Collection Types
   Under the hood of collections
   Different initializations
   Different APIs / operations
       Arrays

Foundation
   NSKeyedArchiver and NSKeyedUnarchiver
   URL Components
   URL Session
   Integer
   Sequence
       Sequence
       IteratorProtocol
       Stack as an iterator

Swift VS. ObjC
   Enums
   Generics
   Switch statements

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Blogs and books that I find super useful

• https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift
• https://www.swiftbysundell.com
• https://www.avanderlee.com
• https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/tree/master/proposals
• https://medium.com/pragmatic-programmers/directory-of-pragmatic-programmer-books-on-medium-6a5cbadbd4b4
• https://www.geeksforgeeks.org
• https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/mastering-swift-53/9781800562158/

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