Learn Objective-C on the Mac

Scott Knaster, Mark Dalrymple

338 pages, parution le 07/07/2009

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Résumé

Take your coding skills to the next level with this extensive guide to Objective-C, the native programming language for developing sophisticated software applications for Mac OS X. Objective-C is a powerful, object-oriented extension of C, making this book the perfect follow-up to Dave Mark's best-selling Learn C on the Mac, Mac OS X Edition. Whether you're an experienced C programmer or you're coming from a different language such as C++ or Java, leading Mac experts Mark Dalrymple and Scott Knaster show you how to harness the powers of Objective-C in your applications!

A complete course on the basics of Objective-C using Apple's free Xcode tools
An introduction to object-oriented programming
Comprehensive coverage of inheritance, composition, object initialization, categories, protocols, memory management, and organizing source files
A brief tour of Cocoa's Foundation framework and AppKit
A helpful "learning curve" guide for non-C developers

What you'll learn

Learn Objective-C programming, the gateway to programming your Mac or iPhone.
Write applications for the Mac OS X interface, the cleanest user-interface around.
Understand variables and how to design your own data structures.
Work with the file system.
Connect to data sources and the Internet.

Who this book is for

For anyone wanting to learn to program native applications in Mac OS X, including developers new to the Mac, developers new to Objective-C, or students entirely new to programming.

L'auteur - Scott Knaster

Scott Knaster is the author of How to Write Macintosh Software and Macintosh Programming Secrets, long required reading for Mac programmers. Scott owns every issue of Mad Magazine, which offers some insight into his personal philosophy.

L'auteur - Mark Dalrymple

Mark Dalrymple, the Advanced Mac OS X instructor at Big Nerd Ranch, has been a Macintosh programmer since 1985 and a professional Unix programmer since 1990.
Mark has experience on the client side and server side, being a veteran of several startups and larger technology operations like AOL and Google. On the back-end, he has been the technical lead for AOLserver, a high-performance web server handling tens of thousands of hits per second on many different Unix platforms (Linux, HP, SGI, Digital Alpha, Solaris). On the client-side, he has worked with native Mac toolkits, helped in the construction of cross-platform toolkits, and currently has code running on millions of Macintosh desktops world-wide.
Mark is principal author of Learn Objective-C on the Macintosh and has been the technical reviewer for many Cocoa and iPhone titles with Apress. He is also the co-founder of CocoaHeads, the international Mac programmer's group, with chapters in 26 countries on five continents.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Apress
Auteur(s)	Scott Knaster, Mark Dalrymple
Parution	07/07/2009
Nb. de pages	338
Format	18 x 23
Couverture	Broché
Poids	600g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781430218159
ISBN13	978-1-4302-1815-9