December 2008
Beginner to intermediate
624 pages
13h 28m
English
Overview
THE #1 BESTSELLING BOOK ON OBJECTIVE-C
2.0
Programming in Objective-C 2.0 provides the new programmer a complete, step-by-step introduction to Objective-C, the primary language used to develop applications for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac OS X platforms.
The book does not assume previous experience with either C or object-oriented programming languages, and it includes many detailed, practical examples of how to put Objective-C to use in your everyday iPhone/iPad or Mac OS X programming tasks.
A powerful yet simple object-oriented programming language that’s based on the C programming language, Objective-C is widely available not only on OS X and the iPhone/iPad platform but across many operating systems that support the gcc compiler, including Linux, Unix, and Windows systems.
The second edition of this book thoroughly covers the latest version of the language, Objective-C 2.0. And it shows not only how to take advantage of the Foundation framework’s rich built-in library of classes but also how to use the iPhone SDK to develop programs designed for the iPhone/iPad platform.
Table of Contents
1
Introduction
Part I: The Objective-C 2.0 Language
2 Programming in Objective-C
3
Classes, Objects, and Methods
4 Data
Types and Expressions
5
Program Looping
6
Making Decisions
7 More on Classes
8
Inheritance
9
Polymorphism, Dynamic Typing, and Dynamic Binding
10 More on
Variables and Data Types
11 Categories and
Protocols
12 The
Preprocessor
13 Underlying C
Language Features
Part II: The Foundation Framework
14 Introduction to
the Foundation Framework
15 Numbers,
Strings, and Collections
16 Working with
Files
17 Memory
Management
18 Copying
Objects
19
Archiving
Part III: Cocoa and the iPhone SDK
20 Introduction to Cocoa
21 Writing iPhone
Applications
Part IV: Appendixes
A
Glossary
B Objective-C 2.0
Language Summary
C Address Book
Source Code
D Resources
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