Learn Objective-C on the Mac

✍ Scribed by Scott Knaster , Waqar Malik , Mark Dalrymple

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 468
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Learn to write apps for some of today’s hottest technologies, including the iPhone and iPad (using iOS), as well as the Mac (using OS X). It starts with Objective-C, the base language on which the native iOS software development kit (SDK) and the OS X are based. Learn Objective-C on the Mac: For OS X and iOS, Second Edition updates a best selling book and is an extensive, newly updated guide to Objective-C.
Objective-C is a powerful, object-oriented extension of C, making this update the perfect follow-up to Dave Mark’s bestselling Learn C on the Mac. Whether you’re an experienced C programmer or you’re coming from a different language such as C++ or Java, leading Mac experts Scott Knaster and Waqar Malik show how to harness the power of Objective-C in your apps!

A complete course on the basics of Objective-C using Apple’s newest Xcode tools

An introduction to object-oriented programming

Comprehensive coverage of new topics like blocks, GCD, ARC, class extensions, as well as inheritance, composition, object initialization, categories, protocols, memory management, and organizing source files

An introduction to building user interfaces using what is called the UIKit

A primer for non-C programmers to get off the ground even faster

What you’ll learn

Learn Objective-C programming, the gateway to programming your iPhone, iPad or Mac

Write apps for the iOS and/or OS X interfaces, the cleanest user-interfaces around

Understand variables and how to design your own data structures

Work with the new Objective-C features now available in this update like blocks, automated reference counting (ARC) and class extensions

Work with new tools available like Clang static analyzer and Grand Central Dispatch (GCD)

Undertand UIKit and how to build simple user interfaces easily and effectively

Explore using the latest Xcode