The Swift Standard Library currently implements the three most essential general-purpose data structures: Array, Set and Dictionary. These are the right tool for a wide variety of use cases, and they are particularly well-suited for use as currency types. But sometimes, in order to… Continue Reading
The producer–consumer problem also known as the bounded-buffer problem is a classic example of a multi-process synchronisation problem. It is defined as follows: The Producer generates items in random time intervals and writes them into a bounded buffer. The Consumer consumes these items… Continue Reading
In 1868 Lewis Carroll published “The Alphabet-Cipher”. They say he did this in a kids magazine ?. While Carroll called his cipher “unbreakable” we know it is not. However it is still interesting to implement such a cipher as a… Continue Reading
Reversing a string in Swift is done by using the reversed() method on its characters, then creating a new string out of the result. Here’s the code: Reverse a String without using reversed built-in function in Swift can be done using Swift higher order… Continue Reading