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Learn Objective-C on the Mac
of: Scott Knaster, Mark Dalrymple
Apress, 2009
ISBN: 9781430218166 , 360 Pages
Format: PDF, Read online
Copy protection: DRM
Hello
17
Before You Start
17
Where the Future Was Made Yesterday
18
What’s Coming Up
18
Summary
19
Extensions to C
20
The Simplest Objective-C Program
20
Deconstructing Hello Objective-C
23
Are You the Boolean Type?
28
Summary
33
Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming
34
It’s All Indirection
35
Using Indirection in Object-Oriented Programming
45
Time Out for Terminology
57
OOP in Objective-C
58
Summary
70
Inheritance
71
Why Use Inheritance?
71
Inheritance Syntax
76
How Inheritance Works
79
Overriding Methods
83
Summary
86
Composition
87
What Is Composition?
87
Accessor Methods
92
Extending CarParts
98
Composition or Inheritance?
99
Summary
100
Source File Organization
101
Split Interface and Implementation
101
Breaking Apart the Car
105
Using Cross-File Dependencies
107
Summary
114
More About Xcode
115
Changing the Company Name
116
Using Editor Tips and Tricks
117
WritingYour Code with a Little Help from Xcode
119
Getting Information
135
Debugging
137
Cheat Sheet
143
Summary
144
A Quick Tour of the Foundation Kit
145
Some Useful Types
146
Stringing Us Along
148
Mutability
153
Collection Agency
155
Family Values
165
Example: Looking for Files
168
Summary
173
Memory Management
174
Object Life Cycle
175
Autorelease
180
The Rules of Cocoa Memory Management
184
Summary
190
Object Initialization
191
Allocating Objects
191
Initializing Objects
192
Isn’t That Convenient?
195
More Parts Is Parts
196
Car Cleaning, GC Style
205
The Designated Initializer
207
Initializer Rules
212
Summary
212
Properties
213
Shrinking Property Values
214
Objecting to Properties
220
Summary
227
Categories
228
Creating a Category
228
Splitting an Implementation with Categories
232
Making Forward References with Categories
237
Informal Protocols and Delegation Categories
238
Summary
245
Protocols
246
Formal Protocols
246
Carbon Copies
248
Objective-C 2.0 Goodies
257
Summary
258
Introduction to the AppKit
259
Making the Project
259
Making the AppController @interface
262
Interface Builder
263
Laying Out the User Interface
266
Making Connections
268
AppController Implementation
272
Summary
274
File Loading and Saving
275
Property Lists
275
Encoding Objects
279
Summary
286
Key-Value Coding
287
A Starter Project
287
Introducing KVC
290
A Path! A Path!
291
Aggregated Assault
292
Life’s a Batch
300
The Nils Are Alive
302
Handling the Unhandled
302
Summary
304
NSPredicate
305
Creating a Predicate
306
Fuel Filters
308
Format Specifiers
309
Hello Operator, Give Me Number 9
311
SELF Sufficient
314
String Operations
315
Like, Fer Sure
316
That’s All, Folks
316
Coming to Objective-C from Other Languages
317
Coming from C
318
Coming from C++
319
Coming from Java
324
Coming from BASIC
326
Coming from Scripting Languages
326
Summary
327
Index
328
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