- Paperback: 480 pages
- Publisher: Big Nerd Ranch Guides; 1 edition (13 April 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0321706242
- ISBN-13: 978-0321706249
- Product Dimensions: 26.4 x 18 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 237,484 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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
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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
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Well I've read this cover to cover, typed in every line of code, completed all the challenges and delved into every "For the more curious" sections.
This is remarkable for me as I have 4 other iPhone books and never made it past Chapter 4 or 5. By all means buy all those other books and I'm sure you'll get something from them BUT - read this one first.
Joe and Aaron seem to have this remarkable ability to a) explain things in a manner that you understand and b) anticipate where you're likely to need extra help. Even the challenges at the end of most chapters are perfectly designed to push you on that further step to really confirm your understanding. I am not connected to Big Nerd Ranch in any way but it seems that they have tailored the book to reflect the first hand experiences of developers who attend their classes. Hence the uncanny anticipation of your next question.
To get the most out of this book you need to know the C language - not to any uber advanced level but enough to know about pointers, memory management and the general datatypes and flow of execution. It also helps to have a reasonably sound understanding of object oriented techniques and principles.
The book takes you through all the sexy stuff, Maps, Animation, Graphics, Accelerometer, Camera, Web Services and basic Audio and Video as well as the necessary building blocks of View Controllers, Tableviews, Address Book, Localisation, Bonjour, Settings and all the storage options. There is also a responsive forum at their website that Joe and Aaron personally monitor that helps address any further questions you have and occasionally sets a few extra challenges.
I can't recommend this book enough - sorry if it's coming across as gushing but I've had an idea for an app for some time now, and after reading this book, I feel like it's going to happen.
This is remarkable for me as I have 4 other iPhone books and never made it past Chapter 4 or 5. By all means buy all those other books and I'm sure you'll get something from them BUT - read this one first.
Joe and Aaron seem to have this remarkable ability to a) explain things in a manner that you understand and b) anticipate where you're likely to need extra help. Even the challenges at the end of most chapters are perfectly designed to push you on that further step to really confirm your understanding. I am not connected to Big Nerd Ranch in any way but it seems that they have tailored the book to reflect the first hand experiences of developers who attend their classes. Hence the uncanny anticipation of your next question.
To get the most out of this book you need to know the C language - not to any uber advanced level but enough to know about pointers, memory management and the general datatypes and flow of execution. It also helps to have a reasonably sound understanding of object oriented techniques and principles.
The book takes you through all the sexy stuff, Maps, Animation, Graphics, Accelerometer, Camera, Web Services and basic Audio and Video as well as the necessary building blocks of View Controllers, Tableviews, Address Book, Localisation, Bonjour, Settings and all the storage options. There is also a responsive forum at their website that Joe and Aaron personally monitor that helps address any further questions you have and occasionally sets a few extra challenges.
I can't recommend this book enough - sorry if it's coming across as gushing but I've had an idea for an app for some time now, and after reading this book, I feel like it's going to happen.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Such a great book - such an easy read. Keeps you constantly interested with practicals during each chapter.
Also challenges you at the end of each chapter which forces you to learn new things and try new things - you are also actively involved in learning instead of just reading something.
Also challenges you at the end of each chapter which forces you to learn new things and try new things - you are also actively involved in learning instead of just reading something.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As with "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X", the Big Nerd Ranch have managed to produce the ultimate guide for anyone wishing to start their iPhone development career. I've been a Cocoa developer on the Mac for several years, but no other book (and I tried many of them) could explain so many iPhone development concepts in such a clear, concise yet in-depth way.
The amount of topics covered is also staggering, from MapKit to Core Data, the accelerometer to integrating your app with web services. Whatever you do, read this book before you delve any deeper in iPhone development. You won't regret it.
The amount of topics covered is also staggering, from MapKit to Core Data, the accelerometer to integrating your app with web services. Whatever you do, read this book before you delve any deeper in iPhone development. You won't regret it.
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Warning - OUT OF DATE!
This may be a good book if you had the version of Xcode it is written for, but it is not written for the most recent version (4.2.1 as I'm writing this). Read more
Published 5 months ago by Ruslan Evans
Superb
Quite simply and excellent text book. Clear and concise and gets on with the job. I'm a seasoned programmer, but new to iPhone and it was just the ticket to get me going quickly,... Read more
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Great read so far
Still not done with the book but so far it has been good. They suggest that you should have some basic knowledge about the C-language. Read more
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