Preface

What This Book Will Do For You

Let me get this straight: you want to learn how to program for the iPhone or the iPad and you consider yourself to be pretty intelligent—but whenever you read computer code or highly technical instructions, your brain seems to shut down. Do your eyes glaze over when reading gnarly instructions? Does a little voice in your head chide, “How about that! Your brain shut down six lines ago, but you’re still scanning the page—pretending you’re not as dense as you feel. Great!”

See if you can relate to this: you’re having an issue with something pretty technical, so you decide to Google it and troubleshoot the problem. You open the top hit, and somebody else has asked the exact same question! You become excited ...

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