Want to write iOS apps or desktop Mac applications? This introduction to programming and the Objective-C language is your first step on the journey from someone who uses apps to someone who writes them.
Based on Big Nerd Ranch's popular Objective-C Bootcamp, Objective-C Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide covers C, Objective-C, and the common programming idioms that enable developers to make the most of Apple technologies. Compatible with Xcode 5, iOS 7, and OS X Mavericks (10.9), this guide features short chapters and an engaging style to keep you motivated and moving forward. At the same time, it encourages you to think critically as a programmer.

Here are some of the topics covered:

• Using Xcode, Apple's documentation, and other tools

• Programming basics: variables, loops, functions, etc.

• Objects, classes, methods, and messages

• Pointers, addresses, and memory management with ARC

• Properties and Key-Value Coding (KVC)

• Class extensions

• Categories

• Classes from the Foundation framework

• Blocks

• Delegation, target-action, and notification design patterns

• Key-Value Observing (KVO)

• Runtime basics

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• Publication Date: November 20, 2013
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• Print Length: 371 Pages
• File Size: 183 KB