iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, Second Edition

Style Choices

This book contains a lot of code. We have attempted to make that code and the designs behind it exemplary. We have done our best to follow the idioms of the community, but at times we have wandered from what you might see in Apple’s sample code or code you might find in other books. You may not understand these points now, but it is best that we spell them out before you commit to reading this book:

• There is an alternative syntax for calling accessor methods known as dot-notation. In this book, we will explain dot-notation, but we will not use it. For us and for most beginners, dot-notation tends to obfuscate what is really happening.
• In our subclasses of UIViewController, we always change the designated initializer to init. It ...