iOS Programming Guide | Big Nerd Ranch

Updated for iOS 10, Swift 3 and Xcode 8, this book will lead you through the essential concepts, techniques and tools for developing iOS applications. After completing it, you will have the know-how and confidence you need to tackle iOS projects of your own.

What you'll learn

The big ideas in iOS development like delegation, archiving, and the proper use of view controllers.

Each of the subsystems that make up the iOS SDK so that you can search and understand Apple’s reference documentation.

The concepts and techniques of internationalization and localization.

Table views, their view controllers, their data sources, how to display data in a table and how to allow the user to edit the table.

This book will take you through everything you need to know for iOS programming. The authors have a great way of making the complex frameworks seem extremely manageable, and you learn as you go. This is written for someone with basic programming experience, but you certainly don't have to be a great programmer. Highly recommend as a great learning tool for all the basics of iOS programming.

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about the authors

Christian Keur is a senior instructor and software engineer at Big Nerd Ranch, where he maintains the course materials for the company’s highly acclaimed iOS Essentials bootcamps, upon which this book is based. Christian earned a degree in computer science from Georgia Institute of Technology and can often be found wandering around Atlanta, glancing up at the stars or reading a book.

Aaron Hillegass is the founder of Big Nerd Ranch and a former employee at NeXT and Apple. He has nearly two decades of experience teaching Objective-C, Cocoa and most recently, iOS programming. Aaron is the co-author of Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide and Objective-C Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide.