Beginning Objective-C (Paperback)

Objective-C is today's fastest growing programming language, at least in part due to the popularity of Apple's Mac, iPhone and iPad. Beginning Objective-C is for you if you have some programming experience, but you're new to the Objective-C programming language and you want a modern—and fast—way forwards to your own coding projects.

Beginning Objective-C offers you a modern programmer's perspective on Objective-C courtesy of two of the best iOS and Mac developers in the field today, and gets you programming to the best of your ability in this important language.  It gets you rolling fast into the sound fundamentals and idioms of Objective-C on the Mac and iOS, in order to learn how best to construct your applications and libraries, making the best use of the tools it provides— no matter what projects you plan to build. The book offers thorough introductions to the core tenets of the language itself and its primary toolkits: the Foundation and AppKit frameworks. Within its pages you will encounter a mine of information on many topics, including use of the file system and network APIs, concurrency and multi-core programming, the user interface system architecture, data modeling, and more.

You'll soon find yourself building a fairly complex Objective-C based application, and mastering the language ready for your own projects.

If you're new to programming altogether, then Apress has other Objective-C books for you such as our Learning and Absolute Beginner titles—otherwise, let your existing skills ramp you fast forwards in Objective-C with Beginning Objective-C so that you can start building your own applications quickly.

What you’ll learn

• How to build your first Objective-C application or two
• What is OOP or object oriented programming and how it impacts Objective-C
• What are the Objective-C language features and the foundational APIs
• How to use the Filesystem, I/O and networking APIs
• How to build the graphical user interface and the user experience around and in it
• How to work with data and advanced data management
• How to work within the limits of the App Sandbox on OS X
• The use of XPC to split your application into separate modules within their own sandboxes

Who this book is for

This book is for programmers with some programming knowledge who are new to the Objective-C programming language and want a modern, fast, contemporary route towards programming the language by building upon their existing knowledge of programming. Existing Objective-C programmers can also benefit from the book’s in-depth information on new techniques and technology and its strong emphasis on tried-and-tested Objective-C programming idioms.

Table of Contents

1. Getting Started with Objective-C (with simple HelloWorld application)
2. Object-Oriented Programming
3. Objective-C Language Features
4. Foundational APIs
5. Using The Filesystem
6. Using the Network
7. User Interfaces: The Application Kit
8. Advanced Data Management with Core Data
9. Writing An Application (complex case study example)
10. Wrapping Up

Objective-C是當今增長最快的程式語言之一，至少部分原因是由於蘋果的Mac、iPhone和iPad的普及。《Beginning Objective-C》適合那些有一些程式設計經驗，但對Objective-C程式語言還不熟悉，並且希望以現代且快速的方式進行自己的編碼項目的讀者。《Beginning Objective-C》提供了兩位當今領域內最優秀的iOS和Mac開發人員對Objective-C的現代程式設計師觀點，並且以最佳能力讓您在這個重要的語言中進行編程。它快速地讓您掌握Mac和iOS上Objective-C的基本原則和慣用語法，以便學習如何最佳地構建應用程序和庫，充分利用它提供的工具，無論您計劃建立什麼項目。本書詳細介紹了語言本身和其主要工具包（Foundation和AppKit框架）的核心原則。在書中，您將找到許多主題的豐富信息，包括使用文件系統和網絡API、並發和多核編程、用戶界面系統架構、數據建模等等。您很快就會開始構建一個相當複雜的基於Objective-C的應用程序，並掌握這門語言，為自己的項目做好準備。如果您完全是新手，Apress還有其他針對Objective-C的書籍，例如我們的學習和絕對初學者系列，否則，讓您現有的技能快速推進Objective-C，並快速開始構建自己的應用程序。本書適合具有一些程式設計知識的程式設計師，他們對Objective-C程式語言還不熟悉，並且希望通過在現有程式設計知識的基礎上建立對這門語言的現代、快速、當代的編程路線。現有的Objective-C程式設計師也可以從本書深入了解新技術和技術以及其對經過驗證的Objective-C程式設計慣用語法的強調。目錄：1. 開始使用Objective-C（帶有簡單的HelloWorld應用程序）2. 面向對象編程3. Objective-C語言特性4. 基礎API5. 使用文件系統6. 使用網絡7. 用戶界面：應用程序套件8. 使用Core Data進行高級數據管理9. 編寫應用程序（複雜案例研究示例）10. 總結