With structures, we can create our own data type and use them to model everyday objects with their own unique characteristics. Here’s the basic syntax for a structure:

struct Name {
  Properties
}

The struct keyword followed by the name of the structure creates the structure. By convention, this name is capitalized. Then inside the curly braces that follow is the body and where properties and methods (which we’ll explore in a later exercise) unique to the structure are defined.

Here’s an example of a struct that models a dog:

struct Dog {
  var age: Int
  var isGood: Bool
}

Structures tend to have singular names, hence Dog instead of Dogs. When we look closer at the Dog structure, we see it has two properties which look like typed variables:

• age typed as Int.
• isGood typed as Bool.