Hour 3. Understanding the MVC Design Pattern

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

What a design pattern is

The goal of the model-view-controller design pattern

How Xcode implements MVC

What an MVC application project looks like

If you have programmed within other environments before, chances are you have gotten used to doing things in a certain way. Xcode and Mac OS X/iOS development is flexible, but you will find that using a development approach known as model-view-controller (MVC) will make your projects flow smoothly and make them easier to update in the future.

This hour explores the MVC approach and discusses why it can be a benefit to your development as well as how you can implement it within the Xcode toolset. You learn the forms ...

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