On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:55:38 +0800, Janos Syd Nepthali Pao <soyo...@gmail.com> said: > >I'd like to ask for your hints, advice and words of wisdom --anything >you can share for someone just beginning his journey here. >
This is probably a reasonable moment for me to reveal that I've been writing a Cocoa / iOS programming book for O'Reilly since last May. The first draft is nearly done (less than another month, I expect). The book is available for advanced purchase in digital form as an Early Release, and at this point I could use some serious readers (an additional tech reader or two would also be great, get in touch with me if you're up for that). http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920010258/ I start all the way at the beginning - with C, then Objective-C - and built up through Cocoa conceptually and in practice, and on into the business of making things appear and happen in an iOS app. Of course there are limits to what I'm going to go into; we're threatening to run over 700 pages, and that's plenty. Here's the table of contents so far, just for the curious. Preface Just Enough C Compilation, Statements, and Comments Variable Declaration, Initialization, and Data Types Structs Pointers Arrays Operators Flow Control and Conditions Functions Pointer Arguments and the Address Operator Files The Standard Library More Preprocessor Directives Data Type Qualifiers Object-Based Programming Objects Messages and Methods Classes and Instances Class Methods Instance Variables The Object-Based Philosophy Objective-C Objects and Messages An Instance Reference is a Pointer Messages and Methods Typecasting and the id Type Messages as Data Type C Functions and Struct Pointers Blocks Objective-C Classes Class and Superclass Interface and Implementation Header File and Implementation File Class Methods The Secret Life of Classes Objective-C Instances How Instances Are Created Polymorphism The Keyword self The Keyword super Instance Variables and Accessors Key-Value Coding Properties How to Write an Initializer Anatomy of an Xcode Project New Project The Project Window The Project File and its Dependents The Target From Project to App Nib Management A Tour of the Nib-Editing Interface Nib Loading and File’s Owner Default Instances in the Main Nib File Making and Loading a Nib Outlets Actions and Action Connections Hintless Connections Additional Initialization of Nib-based Instances Documentation The Documentation Window Class Documentation Pages Sample Code Other Resources Life Cycle of a Project Choosing a Device Architecture Localization Editing Your Code Navigating Your Code Debugging Clean All Targets Running in the Simulator Running on a Device The Organizer Window Instruments Distribution Ad Hoc Distribution Final App Preparations Submission to the App Store Cocoa Classes Subclassing Categories Protocols Optional Methods Some Foundation Classes The Secret Life of NSObject Cocoa Events Reasons for Events Subclassing Notifications Delegation Data Sources Actions The Responder Chain Swamped By Events Accessors and Memory Management Accessors Key-Value Coding Memory Management Properties Data Communication Model–View–Controller Instance Visibility Notifications Key-Value Observing Views The Window Subview and Superview Frame Bounds and Center Layout Transform Visibility and Opacity Drawing UIImage and UIImageView UIImage CGImage Drawing a UIView Graphics Context State Paths Clipping Gradients Colors and Patterns Graphics Context Transforms Shadows Points and Pixels Content Mode Layers View and Layer Layers and Sublayers Drawing in a Layer Transforms Shadows, Borders, and More Layers and Key-Value Coding Animation Drawing, Animation, and Threading UIImageView Animation View Animation Implicit Layer Animation Core Animation Actions Touches Touch Events and Views Receiving Touches Restricting Touches Interpreting Touches Gesture Recognizers Touch Delivery View Controllers Starting a View Controller Rotation Modal Views Tab Bar Controllers Navigation Controllers View Controller Lifetime Events View Controller Memory Management Scroll Views Creating a Scroll View Scrolling Zooming Scroll View Delegate Scroll View Touches Scroll View Performance Table Views Table View Cells Table View Data Table View Selection Table View Scrolling and Layout Table View Searching Table View Editing Popovers and Split Views Presenting a Popover Managing a Popover Dismissing a Popover Automatic Popovers Split Views Text UILabel UITextField UITextView Core Text Web Views Loading Content Communicating With a Web View Controls and Other Views UIActivityIndicatorView UIProgressView UIPickerView UISearchBar UIControl Bars UINavigationBar UIToolbar UITabBar Modal Dialogs Alert View Action Sheet Dialog Alternatives Sound System Sounds Audio Session Audio Player Remote Control of Your Sound Playing Sound in the Background Further Topics in Sound Video MPMoviePlayerController MPMoviePlayerViewController UIVideoEditorController Further Topics in Video Music Library Exploring the Music Library The Music Player The Music Picker Photo Library UIImagePickerController The Assets Library Framework Address Book Address Book Database Address Book Interface Calendar Calendar Database Calendar Interface Mail Mail Message SMS Message Maps Presenting a Map Annotations Overlays Current Location To be continued... m. -- matt neuburg, phd = m...@tidbits.com, <http://www.apeth.net/matt/> A fool + a tool + an autorelease pool = cool! 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