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Cocoa Programming for OS X: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide
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Cocoa Programming for OS X: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

by Aaron Hillegass, Adam Preble, Nate Chandler
April 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
556 pages
17h 47m
English
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Using Standard Types

In this section, you are going to experiment with standard types in an Xcode playground. A playground lets you write code and see the results without the overhead of manually running an application and checking the output.

From Xcode’s window, select FileNewPlayground.... You can accept the default name for this file; you will only be here briefly. Make sure the platform is OS X.

Figure 2.2  Configuring a playground

Configuring a playground

Click Next and save this file where you saved the RandomPassword project that you created in Chapter 1.

When the file opens, notice that the playground is divided into two sections: ...

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