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Mastering Xcode: Develop and Design, Second Edition
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Mastering Xcode: Develop and Design, Second Edition

by Maurice Kelly, Joshua Nozzi
July 2013
Beginner
432 pages
9h 10m
English
Peachpit Press
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Chapter 1. Installing Xcode

Xcode is Apple’s suite of developer tools. Version 4 is a near-complete departure from earlier versions, and worlds apart from its ancestor, ProjectBuilder. It is aimed squarely at developing, testing, and packaging OS X and iOS applications, utilities, and plug-ins written with the Cocoa frameworks in Objective-C. It’s worth noting, however, that Xcode is well suited for C and C++ development on the Mac as well.

Note the mentions of OS X and iOS: This is an Apple development package. To follow most of the examples in this book (which are based on the latest features in Xcode 4.6), you’ll need an Intel Macintosh computer running OS X version 10.8 or above.

In this chapter, you’ll learn how to download Xcode and install ...

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