Sams Teach Yourself Core Data for Mac® and iOS in 24 Hours

Hour 1. Introducing Xcode 4

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Understanding the new development paradigms

• Exploring the Xcode workspace window

• Defining projects and workspaces

• Debugging with breakpoints

• Caring for your source code with repositories and versions

The Origins of Xcode 4

Xcode 4 has its roots in Project Builder and Interface Builder, the two development tools created for NeXTSTEP. The NeXTSTEP operating system ran on the NeXT computer, which was manufactured by NeXT, the company Steve Jobs founded when he left Apple in 1985. The hardware side of the business was not successful, and NeXTSTEP morphed into OPENSTEP, which ran on Sun’s Solaris operating system, and later on Windows. After Apple purchased NeXT in 1996, the ...