iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide Author: Aaron Hillegass | Language: English | ISBN:
0321942051 | Format: PDF
iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide Description
Updated and expanded to cover iOS 7 and Xcode 5, iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide leads you through the essential concepts, tools, and techniques for developing iOS applications. After completing this book, you will have the know-how and the confidence you need to tackle iOS projects of your own. Based on Big Nerd Ranch's popular iOS Bootcamp course and its well-tested materials and methodology, this bestselling guide teaches iOS concepts and coding in tandem. The result is instruction that is relevant and useful.
Throughout the book, the authors explain what's important and share their insights into the larger context of the iOS platform. You get a real understanding of how iOS development works, the many features that are available, and when and where to apply what you've learned.
Here are some of the topics covered:
- Xcode 5, Instruments, and Storyboards
- Building interfaces using the iOS 7 aesthetic
- ARC and strong and weak references
- Handling touch events and gestures
- Toolbars, navigation controllers, and split view controllers
- Using Auto Layout to scale user interfaces
- Using Dynamic Type to scale fonts
- Localization and Internationalization
- Block syntax and use
- Saving/loading data: Archiving and Core Data
- Core Location and Map Kit
- Communicating with web services using JSON
- Using the Model-View-Controller-Store design pattern
- Series: Big Nerd Ranch Guides
- Paperback: 560 pages
- Publisher: Big Nerd Ranch Guides; 4 edition (February 21, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0321942051
- ISBN-13: 978-0321942050
- Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.1 x 1.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
A quick summary: The quality of the chapters in this edition is once again top notch. You'll learn beginning, intermediate and some advanced topics in the world of iOS development. Trying to go into deep Xcode and iOS development without having gone through at least another book dedicated just to objective-c is going to find you frustrated, like I was, many times trying to learn how to make an iOS app only picking up pieces of the underlying language! This book is 2 chapters of dedicated Objective-C and 26 Chapters of iOS/XCode/UIKit framework.
Background about me: I have 10 years of C++, 6 years of .NET, 2 years of Python, and 2 months of Objective-C experience going into this book.
I ordered the kindle version of this book, and it is great reading on the Mac. The book recommends that you read on a Mac due to the way their code looks on a Kindle/Kindle Fire. I own a Kindle Fire and agree. Besides, you should be doing *ALL* the apps that the book lays out for you, and there are many! So reading on a Mac and then coding their examples on a Mac is a good way to read this book.
PROS:
- Walks you through several iOS application examples.
- Teaches you how to use Xcode by example.
- Goes in depth into standards.
- Provides resources to use in your applications
- Explains *at the right time* why things are done a certain way.
CONS:
- Does have an assumption that you know at least C, but I'll go out on a limb and say you should have at least read a book on Objective-C as well.
Recommended Readings:
The book recommends that if you want an in-depth reading on Objective-C, this book is not for you. Thats understandable, this is the iOS Programming Book, not the Objective-C programming book.
This book is the perfect place for an experienced developer to start with iOS programming. I say experienced developer because this book does a great job of showing you the basics of developing with iOS, but if you don't understand C and Objective-C, you are probably going to get lost. Maybe not, but I found myself saying, "I am glad I already know what that is" about quite a few topics that were used to explain the subject matter. If you don't know Objective-C, I would recommend starting with Objective-C Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (2nd Edition).
This book does a great job of showing you what you need to know to get started with iOS. When you are done with it you should be able to easily move into programming iOS applications and learning more advanced topics along the way.
To give you an idea of the high level topics the book cover, I have listed the chapters below.
1. A Simple iOS Application
2. Objective-C
3. Managing Memory with ARC
4. Views and the View Hierarchy
5. Views: Redrawing and UIScrollView
6. View Controllers
7. Delegation and Text Input
8. UITableView and UITableViewController
9. Editing UITableView
10. UINavigationController
11. Camera
12. Touch Events and UIResponder
13. UIGestureRecognizer and UIMenuController
14. Debugging Tools
15. Introduction to Auto Layout
16. Auto Layout: Programmatic Constraints
17. Autorotation, Popover Controllers, and Modal View Controllers
18. Saving, Loading, and Application States
19. Subclassing UITableViewCell
20. Dynamic Type
21. Web Services and UIWebView
22. UISplitViewController
23. Core Data
24. State Restoration
25. Localization
26. NSUserDefaults
27.
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