by StephenG.Kochan (Author)
Programming in Objective-C, Fourth Edition
Updated for iOS 5 and ARC
The fourth edition of this book has been updated to cover the significant changes that first appeared in iOS 5 and Xcode 4.2, including the use of Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) to improve and simplify memory management in Objective-C programs.
The best book on any programming language that I've ever read. If you want to learn Objective-C, buy it. -Calvin Wolcott
An excellent resource for a new programmer who wants to learn Objective-C as their first programming language-a woefully underserved market. -Pat Hughes
Table of Contents
1 Introduction
2 Programming in Objective-C
3 Classes, Objects, and Methods
4 Data Types and Expressions
5 Program Looping
6 Making Decisions
7 More on Classes
8 Inheritance
9 Polymorphism, Dynamic Typing, and Dynamic Binding
10 More on Variables and Data Types
11 Categories and Protocols
12 The Preprocessor
13 Underlying C Language Features
14 Introduction to the Foundation Framework
15 Numbers, Strings, and Collections
16 Working with Files
17 Memory Management and Automatic Reference Counting
18 Copying Objects
19 Archiving
20 Introduction to Cocoa and Cocoa Touch
21 Writing iOS Applications
A Glossary
B Address Book Example Source Code
Format: Paperback
Pages: 600
Edition: 4
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Published: 21 Dec 2011
ISBN 10: 0321811909
ISBN 13: 9780321811905
Stephen Kochan is the author and coauthor of several bestselling titles on the C language, including Programming in C (Sams, 2004), Programming in ANSI C (Sams, 1994), and Topics in C Programming (Wiley, 1991), and several Unix titles, including Exploring the Unix System (Sams, 1992) and Unix Shell Programming (Sams, 2003). He has been programming on Macintosh computers since the introduction of the first Mac in 1984, and he wrote Programming C for the Mac as part of the Apple Press Library. In 2003 Kochan wrote Programming in Objective-C (Sams, 2003), and followed that with another Mac-related title, Beginning AppleScript (Wiley, 2004).