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Objective-C for iPhone Developers, A Beginner's Guide

✍ Scribed by James Brannan


Publisher
McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Leaves
384
Edition
1
Category
Library

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✦ Synopsis


I can't give a true review of this book, because I can't read it. At least on the iPad Kindle reader, the code listing has lost all formatting - all example code is mushed into one block of text.
This makes it completely pointless.

✦ Table of Contents


Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
1 Exploring the iPhone SDK and Basic Programming......Page 20
Downloading the SDK......Page 22
SDK Documentation......Page 24
Wikipedia......Page 25
The iPhone Dev SDK Forum......Page 26
A Simple C Program......Page 29
Variables......Page 31
Functions......Page 32
Objective-C’s Main Method......Page 34
Header Files and Source Files......Page 37
Xcode Fundamentals......Page 40
Configuring Xcode’s Display......Page 42
Exploring Xcode Further......Page 45
2 Primitive Data Types and Operators......Page 46
Primitive Data Types......Page 47
Numeric Types: Integers......Page 48
Numeric Types: Float and Double......Page 52
Characters......Page 54
Arithmetic Operators......Page 55
Unary Operators......Page 57
Equality and Logical Operators......Page 58
Assignment Operators......Page 59
Data Type Conversions......Page 60
The UIWindow Application Template......Page 61
3 Flow Control Statements, Arrays, and Structures......Page 66
Boolean Expressions......Page 68
The For Loop......Page 69
The While Loop......Page 70
The Do While Loop......Page 71
Conditional Statements......Page 75
The If Statement......Page 76
The If Else If Else Structure......Page 78
The Switch Statement......Page 80
The Break and Continue Statements......Page 83
Arrays and Structures......Page 84
Arrays......Page 85
The Struct Keyword......Page 87
The UIViewController’s Life-Cycle Methods......Page 90
4 Classes, Objects, and Messaging......Page 94
Procedural Programming......Page 96
Object-Oriented Programming: Classes and Objects......Page 98
Object-Oriented Analysis......Page 100
Classes and Objects......Page 101
The @interface......Page 102
Object-Oriented Programming: Behavior......Page 103
Class Interaction......Page 104
The @class Directive......Page 109
Methods and Messaging......Page 114
Class and Instance Methods......Page 115
Allocating and Initializing Objects......Page 118
Writing Custom Initializers......Page 119
Multiple Argument Methods......Page 122
5 Memory Management and Properties......Page 130
Memory Management......Page 131
Manual Memory Management......Page 132
Encapsulation and Memory Management......Page 140
Declaring Properties......Page 144
Dot Notation......Page 145
Property Attributes......Page 146
Ownership and Properties Revisited......Page 150
Autorelease and Pools......Page 151
Autorelease and Custom Classes......Page 152
IBOutlet and Interface Builder......Page 157
Deallocating and Nil Revisited......Page 162
6 Inheritance......Page 164
Inheritance Explained......Page 165
Inheriting Properties......Page 175
Extension......Page 178
Replacing a Parent’s Method......Page 181
Extending a Parent’s Method......Page 182
No Overriding Instance Variables and No Overloading......Page 185
No Method Overloading......Page 186
Inheritance and UIViewController......Page 187
7 Protocols and Categories......Page 192
Protocols......Page 193
Syntax......Page 194
Adopting a Protocol......Page 195
Properties and Protocols......Page 205
Optional Methods......Page 207
Protocols and id......Page 211
Adopting Multiple Protocols......Page 212
Extending Protocols......Page 216
Protocols and Delegates in UIKit......Page 220
Categories......Page 226
Categories Explained......Page 227
8 Some Foundation Framework Classes......Page 232
NSString and NSMutableString......Page 234
NSNumber......Page 239
NSDate and NSDateFormatter......Page 241
NSArray and NSMutableArray......Page 243
NSEnumerator and Fast Enumeration......Page 247
NSDictionary and NSMutableDictionary......Page 250
9 File Handling......Page 256
iPhone Directories......Page 257
NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains......Page 258
NSBundle......Page 259
NSFileManager......Page 260
NSString, Paths, and Text Files......Page 267
NSData......Page 273
10 Property Lists, NSCopy, and Archiving......Page 284
Property Lists......Page 285
Writing a Property List......Page 286
Reading a Property List......Page 287
Archiving......Page 297
NSKeyedArchiver and NSKeyedUnarchiver......Page 298
11 Selectors and Targets......Page 314
Selectors......Page 315
Delaying a Selector or Running in Background......Page 319
Notifications......Page 320
Delegates......Page 326
Target-Action......Page 330
12 The Model-View-Controller Design Pattern......Page 334
The Model-View-Controller Design Pattern......Page 335
Persistence......Page 343
Multiple Xibs......Page 347
A......Page 372
C......Page 373
F......Page 375
I......Page 376
L......Page 377
M......Page 378
N......Page 379
P......Page 380
R......Page 381
T......Page 382
V......Page 383
X......Page 384


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