September 2002
Intermediate to advanced
1272 pages
31h 12m
English
The meat of this chapter is a catalog of common design patterns found in Cocoa. This catalog includes industry standard patterns and patterns unique to Cocoa. While this catalog is not comprehensive, it does present the most commonly encountered Cocoa patterns.
Model-View-Controller, or MVC for short, is considered an architecture more than a pattern. This is because it is a general way of organizing an application, and is an architectural feature at a higher, more abstract level than most patterns. Because this approach to application design permeates Cocoa, it makes sense to discuss it as a part of the patterns and design philosophies encountered when working with Cocoa.
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