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INTRODUCTION
Learning objective-c for beginners will get you started in learning this very powerful language for developing apps on iPhone, iPad, and Mac systems. Learn by full example. By Full Example we mean that you will be given a complete example to work from and learn each step of the way. You will never have to guess and fill in missing code. In this way learning will never be frustrating. This book emphasizes objective c only by focusing on command line applications, which do not have a graphical user interface so that we can isolate, and focus on the programming language concepts and syntax. This book explains very clearly detailed aspects of the Objective-C language.
My Passion
Computer Science has been a hobby that I enjoyed since 1981 when I got my first computer, a commodore Vic-20. I have been having fun ever since. The rest is history. I have an extensive background in software development. I have been a high-level computer consultant for the last 24 years. I will attempt to define objective c in terms that even a layman can understand. If there is a statement that is unclear please email me @ stevet000@tekkiebooks.com with your feedback. I will use your feedback to make improvements in the writing quality if necessary. Let us get started.
Required Tools
You will need a Mac computer and Xcode, Apple’s integrated development environment. If you do not already have Xcode it can be downloaded from the following link:
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Full Code Examples
I have been frustrated in the past with books that give you snippets of code to follow as you try to learn a concept. Each and every time there is a point at which you get totally confused for any number of reasons: the code at some point has an error, you can no longer follow the code snippets because the previous snippet is not the predecessor to the next snippet so this path falls apart. At this point you are stuck and that section of the book is useless and your ability to follow the code is now ineffectual.
What we do is give you full code examples, meaning that we give you all the code necessary to run that example so if a problem arises, which with Murphy's law will happen, you will have all of the code to analyze so that you can solve any unforeseen issues. Having a fully working example teaches many programming concepts. A full code example is worth ten thousand words of explanation.
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