Objective-C for Absolute Beginners: iPhone, iPad and Mac Programming Made Easy

© Stefan Kaczmarek, Brad Lees, Gary Bennett, Mitch Fisher 2018

Stefan Kaczmarek, Brad Lees, Gary Bennett and Mitch FisherObjective-C for Absolute Beginnershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3429-7_3

3. It’s All About the Data

Stefan Kaczmarek¹ , Brad Lees¹, Gary Bennett² and Mitch Fisher³

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Phoenix, Arizona, USA

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Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

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Glendale, Arizona, USA

 

As you probably know, data is stored as zeros and ones in your computer’s memory. However, zeros and ones are not very useful to developers or app users, so you need to know how your program uses data and how data is stored on your computer.

In this chapter, you will look at how data is stored on computers and how you can manipulate that data. Then you’ll write a fun Alice app illustrating ...