In Objective-C Essential Training, Simon Allardice provides a nuts-and-bolts overview of this popular language for application development for the Mac, the iPhone and iPad, with instructions for building a basic application using Objective-C and Xcode 4. The course shows how to download and install the development tools, covers every major feature of the language, and walks through the writing, compiling, and debugging stages of development. Programmers will also learn about memory management, a vital aspect of programming in Objective-C and Apple’s Foundation framework. Exercise files are included with the course.
Topics include:
- Understanding the structure of an Objective-C program
- Logging messages to the command line
- Writing conditional code
- Working with variables, classes, and functions
- Creating code loops
- Using existing classes in the Foundation framework
- Managing memory usage
- Creating custom classes
- Working with arrays
- Reading and writing strings
- Understanding inheritance and NSObject
- Using Categories and Protocols
- Compiling and debugging code
- Writing exception handlers
- author
- Simon Allardice
- subject
- Developer, Development Tools, Programming Languages
- software
- Xcode 4, Objective-C
- level
- Beginner
- duration
- 5h 59m
- released
- Mar 24, 2011
- DVD
- purchase
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