IOS 8 Programming Fundamentals with Swift : Swift, Xcode, and Cocoa Basics

Neuburg, Matt

ISBN 10: 1491908904 / ISBN 13: 9781491908907

Published by O'Reilly Media, Incorporated, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: IOS 8 Programming Fundamentals with Swift : Swift, Xcode, and Cocoa Basics
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1491908904
• ISBN 13: 9781491908907
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Move into iOS development by getting a firm grasp of its fundamentals, including the Xcode IDE, the Cocoa Touch framework, and Swift—Apple’s new programming language. With this thoroughly updated guide, you’ll learn Swift’s object-oriented concepts, understand how to use Apple’s development tools, and discover how Cocoa provides the underlying functionality iOS apps need to have.Explore Swift’s object-oriented concepts: variables and functions, scopes and namespaces, object types and instancesBecome familiar with built-in Swift types such as numbers, strings, ranges, tuples, Optionals, arrays, and dictionariesLearn how to declare, instantiate, and customize Swift object types—enums, structs, and classesDiscover powerful Swift features such as protocols and genericsTour the lifecycle of an Xcode project from inception to App StoreCreate app interfaces with nibs and the nib editor, Interface BuilderUnderstand Cocoa’s event-driven model and its major design patterns and featuresFind out how Swift communicates with Cocoa’s C and Objective-C APIsOnce you master the fundamentals, you’ll be ready to tackle the details of iOS app development with author Matt Neuburg’s companion guide, Programming iOS 8.

About the Author

Matt Neuburg started programming computers in 1968, when he was 14 years old, as a member of a literally underground high school club, which met once a week to do timesharing on a bank of PDP-10s by way of primitive teletype machines. He also occasionally used Princeton University's IBM-360/67, but gave it up in frustration when one day he dropped his punch cards. He majored in Greek at Swarthmore College, and received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1981, writing his doctoral dissertation (about Aeschylus) on a mainframe. He proceeded to teach Classical languages, literature, and culture at many well-known institutions of higher learning, most of which now disavow knowledge of his existence, and to publish numerous scholarly articles unlikely to interest anyone. Meanwhile he obtained an Apple IIc and became hopelessly hooked on computers again, migrating to a Macintosh in 1990. He wrote some educational and utility freeware, became an early regular contributor to the online journal TidBITS, and in 1995 left academe to edit MacTech Magazine. He is also the author of Frontier: The Definitive Guide and REALbasic: The Definitive Guide. In August 1996 he became a freelancer, which means he has been looking for work ever since. He is the author of Frontier: The Definitive Guide and REALbasic: The Definitive Guide, both for O'Reilly & Associates.