Learn the requirements of Swift, look at the Xcode development environment, and write your first Swift program in this beginner-friendly lesson.

Mark Lassoff, the founder of Learn to Program, demonstrates how to create a new Xcode project for either iOS or OSX, then explores the Xcode interface.

Discover the basics of variables, constants, and variable manipulations, as well as how each of these work in the Swift programming lesson.

Explore some of the common variable types of the Swift programming language, including integers, floating points, doubles, Booleans, and more.

Learn how to use arithmetic operators in the Swift programming language to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in this lesson.

In this lesson on type casting, learn general properties of assigned values in the Swift programming language, plus learn to change variable types with ease.

Learn how Swift allows you to use strings to insert constants, variables, and expressions into longer strings in a process known as string interpolation.

Learn to Program founder Mark Lassoff discusses how to perform a basic control flow with an if statement using the Swift programming language.

Take your knowledge of the Swift programming language to the next level by learning how to create complex conditionals and compound if statements.