Cocoa Programming for OS X: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

Table of Contents

Introduction

About This Book

Prerequisites

Typographical conventions

Using an eBook

What’s new in the fifth edition?

The Story of Cocoa

NeXTSTEP and OpenStep

From NeXTSTEP to OS X to iOS

OSX, Unix, and Cocoa

Introducing the Swift Language

The Cocoa Frameworks

Tools for Cocoa Programming

Some Advice on Learning

1. Let’s Get Started

Creating an Xcode Project

Getting around in Xcode

Application Design

Model-View-Controller

Creating the MainWindowController class

Creating the User Interface in Interface Builder

Adding view objects

Configuring view objects

XIB files and NIB files

Showing the Window

Making Connections

Creating an outlet

Connecting an outlet

Defining an action method

Connecting actions

Creating the Model Layer

Connecting ...