Winner of a 2012 Jolt Productivity Award! Updated and expanded to cover iOS 5 and Xcode 4.3, 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 understanding, 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 best-selling guide teaches iOS concepts and coding in tandem. The result is instruction that is relevant and useful. Throughout the book, the authors clearly explain what’s important to know and share their insights into the larger context of the iOS platform. This gives you 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 4.3, Instruments, and Storyboards ARC, strong and weak references, and retain cycles Interfacing with iCloud Handling touch events and gestures Tool bars, navigation controllers, and split view controllers Localization and Internationalization Block syntax and use Background execution and multi-tasking Saving/loading data: Archiving and Core Data Core Location and Map Kit Communicating with web services Working with XML, JSON, and NSRegularExpression Using the Model-View-Controller-Store design pattern
^Aaron Hillegass, Joe ConwayIOS Programming : The Big Nerd Ranch Guide by Joe Conway and Aaron Hillegass (2012, Paperback)ISBN 9780321821522 (revised Sep 2014)
^Conway, Joe; Hillegass, Aaron (2014). IOS Programming : The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, Big Nerd Ranch Guides. BiggerBooks. ISBN 9780321821522 (revised Aug 2023)
This books helps to ease your learning curve if you are interested to start development for the iOS 5 platform.Excellent explanation on ARC, strong and weak references, and retain cycles.New chapters on using gesture recognizers, storyboards, NSRegularExpression, and the iCloud.You will enjoy also the chapter on the the Model-View-Controller-Store design pattern.The writing style is the same, but in my opinion the topics are clearer than the previous editions.Also, for Code that you should delete is struck ..
I'm a rusty old developer who decided to get his hands dirty again. I had previously tried the O'Reilly "Programming iOS 4" book and found it really wanting. I could never get into a good groove -- I didn't like the examples/samples, the way the concepts were being introduced wasn't intuitive. The book just wasn't for me. A few months later, I decided to try again. Since iOS 5 was out, I needed a new book. I saw a number of positive reviews for the BNR book and decided to give it a try. I immediately..
I found this edition of the book to be a little simpler to understand than the second edition. It may be due to the fact that Apple now supports ARC and the authors don't have to worry about explaining it. But overall, I think they really went back and tried to explain things in the clearest ways possible and at least through the first five chapters, everything has been making a lot of sense. It is hard for people not very familiar with programming (like myself) to grasp some of the concepts like delegation..
