| iPhone Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (Big Nerd Ranch Guides) |  | Authors: Joe Conway, Aaron Hillegass
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
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ISBN: 0321706242
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Publication Date: April 23, 2010
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Product Description
Based on Big Nerd Ranch’s popular iPhone Bootcamp class, iPhone Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide leads you through the essential tools and techniques for developing applications for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. In each chapter, you will learn programming concepts and apply them immediately as you build an application or enhance one from a previous chapter. These applications have been carefully designed and tested to teach the associated concepts and to provide practice working with the standard development tools Xcode, Interface Builder, and Instruments. The guide’s learn-while-doing approach delivers the practical knowledge and experience you need to design and build real-world applications. Here are some of the topics covered:
- Dynamic interfaces with animation
- Using the camera and photo library
- User location and mapping services
- Accessing accelerometer data
- Handling multi-touch gestures
- Navigation and tabbed applications
- Tables and creating custom rows
- Multiple ways of storing and loading data: archiving, Core Data, SQLite
- Communicating with web services
- ALocalization/Internationalization
"After many 'false starts' with other iPhone development books, these clear and concise tutorials made the concepts gel for me. This book is a definite must have for any budding iPhone developer." –Peter Watling, New Zealand, Developer of BubbleWrap
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Great book! A fun-to-read textbook! September 7, 2010
RyanG
I ordered this book due to its very good ratings, and how people said it was well written and "fun to read". I of course was skeptical, every Computer Science book I have ever come across is extremely boring and even after looking through it, your left confused. This book however is the opposite! I just want to keep going and going to see what cool things i'll learn next chapter!
The authors teaching style is very visual and extremely straightforward. Things that left me a little confused in the beginning were answered on the next page, everything you type has a purpose and the authors explain them, not just have you write them without knowing what they actually do.
I am a CSCI major in college, and we don't have any iPhone programming classes here, so I took it upon myself to learn, and this book I can already tell will get me there. Thanks so much for this great book! I hope that those reading these reviews will choose this book, if you think this one is too hard, there is no way you are getting anywhere with some of the other books.
Excellent style for learning foundations of iPhone development August 18, 2010
D. Knight (San Diego, CA USA)
I have almost a dozen books on iPhone application development and I am most impressed with this one from Big Nerd Ranch. When combined with the resources directly available on the Apple iPhone Developers website, this is a perfect foundation to get you started in iPhone development. Aaron's style and systematic approach is excellent for anyone with fundamental software development skills. If you have no experience with object oriented development at all, you may want to begin with "Programming in Objective-C 2.0" and then jump right into this book. Overall, I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to get off to a fast start!
Beginners must buy and read and code, code, code!!!! August 8, 2010
R. Liberal (Layton, Ut United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I picked this up as my first iPhone (Apple) Development book and I was able to get through it in less than a week (working only nights). It's a very easy, straight-to-the-point read and the samples are simple and really drive home the basics. After reading this book, you will want to delve into Apple's documentation more heavily before you start building apps or maybe pick up a more advance book, but this is a great start nonetheless.
I'm currently reading LaMarche's Beginning iPhone 3 Development and I can already tell in chapter 4 that it'll take me a while to get through this book. I enjoy it so far, but it's just a little more dragged out that BNRG's book.
Also, Hillegass is a bit of a purist, setting up non-templated projects and doing a lot of coding, almost avoiding Interface Builder, so you'll get to see how things really work and connect in MVC in Cocoa Touch. I think that's a great approach to teaching. After you learn the inner-workings of a programming language, you will be more comfortable using templates and code gens, then tweaking your code to make things work properly.
Bottom line, as a beginner, you can't go wrong with this book.
Cheers.
You want to write iPhone apps? Buy this book. August 6, 2010
peg2 (Chicago, IL USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is one of the best programming books I've ever read; in 30+ years of programming, that's quite a statement. This takes you step-by-step through all things iPhone, explains them thoroughly before going on to the next thing. You will not only be able to write an iPhone app when you're done with this book, you will understand how you got there. That's the whole ballgame. Thanks, Big Nerds!
iPhone application development made clear July 26, 2010
FipC (San Francisco, CA)
Anyone can write code; developing an application requires architecture. Architecture requires an advanced state of knowledge.
The Big Nerd book will get you there.
If you are just starting out, but have some programming experience, get a copy of Kochan's Programming in Objective-C 2.0 and study the first 14 chapters. Then work through this book.
6 weeks to iPhone programming mastery.
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