Book Description
A new edition of this title is available, ISBN-10: 0321566157 ISBN-13: 9780321566157
Programming in Objective-C is a concise, carefully written tutorial on the basics of Objective-C and object-oriented programming. The book makes no assumption about prior experience with object-oriented programming languages or with the C language (upon which Objective-C is based). And because of this, both novice and experienced programmers alike can use this book to quickly and effectively learn the fundamentals of Objective-C. Readers can also learn the concepts of object-oriented programming without having to first learn all of the intricacies of the underlying procedural language (C). This approach, combined with many small program examples and exercises at the end of each chapter, makes it ideally suited for either classroom use or self-study. Growth is expected in this language. At the January 2003 MacWorld, it was announced that there are 5 million Mac OS X users and each of their boxes ships with Objective-C built in.
Table of Contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents at a Glance
- Table of Contents
- Dedication
- About the Author
- About the Technical Reviewers
- We Want to Hear from You
- Reader Services
- 1. Introduction
- I. The Objective-C Language
- 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, Posing, and Protocols
- 12. The Preprocessor
- 13. Underlying C Language Features
- II. The Foundation Framework
- III. Appendixes
- Index
- Footnotes