CIS 5

About this course

Swift is Apple's open source language used to develop native iOS and Mac OS apps. Swift was designed to be beginner friendly. Topics covered include: native and collection data types, operators and statements, loops and branching, functions and variable scoping, modules and packages, object oriented programming, file handling, regular expressions and exception handling.

No section is scheduled at De Anza College for Fall 2026. The course can still be offered in a later quarter.

Enrollment availability changes frequently. Confirm status in the official FHDA registration system before enrolling.

Prerequisites

The De Anza catalog lists no prerequisite for this course.

Advisory: “ESL D272. and ESL D273., or ESL D472. and ESL D473., or eligibility for ENGL C1000 or ENGL C1000H or ESL D005. Intermediate algebra or equivalent (or higher), or appropriate placement beyond intermediate algebra”

Transfer pathways that use CIS 5

ASSIST maps CIS 5 to a requirement in 14 published pathways from De Anza College.

• Statistics and Data ScienceDe Anza → UC Santa Barbara
• Psychological and Brain SciencesDe Anza → UC Santa Barbara
• Statistics and Data ScienceDe Anza → UC Santa Barbara
• GeographyDe Anza → UC Santa Barbara
• MathematicsDe Anza → UC Santa Barbara
• Applied MathematicsDe Anza → UC Santa Barbara
• Geography, B.A. - Geographic Information Science EmphasisDe Anza → UC Santa Barbara
• Actuarial ScienceDe Anza → UC Santa Barbara
• Physical GeographyDe Anza → UC Santa Barbara
• Financial Mathematics and StatisticsDe Anza → UC Santa Barbara
• MathematicsDe Anza → UC Santa Barbara
• Earth ScienceDe Anza → UC Santa Barbara
• Physical Geography, B.S. - Ocean Science EmphasisDe Anza → UC Santa Barbara
• Earth Science, B.S. - Geophysics EmphasisDe Anza → UC Santa Barbara