Duration

3 Days

Price

$1,750

Audience

Programmers with a working knowledge of C who are interested in learning to write Cocoa applications.

Prerequisites

ANSI C Programming or the equivalent.

Description

Get a solid grounding in Objective-C and the Foundation framework, plus advanced design and coding techniques. Clear examples and realistic lab exercises allow you to learn step-by-step, as you develop working application code that helps you master important concepts.

Covers Objective-C and Foundation Kit, including:

• Objects and classes
• Methods and instance variables
• Messaging and the run-time system
• Object allocation, initialization, and deallocation
• CoreFoundation classes and toll-free bridging
• Factory methods
• Memory management, including retain counts, autorelease pools, and garbage collection
• Understanding and leveraging encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism
• Introspection and dynamic binding
• Invocation forwarding
• Dynamic properties
• Categories and protocols
• Key-value coding
• Streams
• Archiving and serialization
• Foundation classes: dates, calendars, numbers, dictionaries, arrays, run loops, etc.
• Cocoa design patterns: Abstract Factory (Class Clusters), Command, and Decorator (Delegation), etc.

Course Outline

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Links

For additional information on Objective-C, please visit:

ADC Reference Library: http://developer.apple.com/referencelibrary/Cocoa/idxObjectiveCLanguage-date.html
Stepwise: http://www.stepwise.com/
Cocoa Dev Central: http://www.cocoadevcentral.com/
Objective-C resource page: http://www.foldr.org/~michaelw/objective-c/