Cocoa® Programming

Summary

Being able to cover the most important elements of the Objective-C language in a single chapter is a tribute to the language’s simplicity. More details about the Objective-C runtime are presented in Appendix A. The appendix will help you harness the full power of Objective-C’s runtime, and advanced techniques. In the meantime, with the information presented in this chapter and the next, you have all the language tools you need to start Cocoa programming.

Libraries of reusable code are needed to really take advantage of any language. Objective-C is a very rich language and the Cocoa frameworks comprise one of the most powerful libraries of reusable objects ever created. Just as libraries are needed to take full advantage of a language, ...