🧩 Swift Basics: The self Keyword

A concise, runnable playground showing how self disambiguates properties inside initializers.

📖 Overview

In Swift, self refers to the current instance of a type. It is most often used inside an initializer or method to distinguish a stored property from a parameter that shares the same name. This repository is a concise, runnable learning example — a single Xcode Playground (Self.playground) that demonstrates the pattern with two small struct examples.

📚 What it covers

• Using self.property = property inside an init to resolve the naming collision between a stored property and an initializer parameter.
• A minimal struct with one property assigned through a custom initializer.
• A struct that mixes an injected property with a default-valued property, initializing only the injected one.
• Watching Swift's Playground evaluate each expression and show its value inline.

🚀 Getting Started

git clone https://github.com/ahmetbostanciklioglu/Self.git
cd Self
unzip Self.playground.zip
open Self.playground

Open the playground in Xcode and let it execute — the results sidebar shows each expression's value as it runs.

📋 Requirements

• macOS with Xcode 13 or later
• Swift 5+

🧑‍💻 Author

Ahmet Bostancıklıoğlu — @ahmetbostanciklioglu · ahmetbostancikli@gmail.com

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