How This Book Is Organized

In this book, each chapter addresses one or more ideas of iOS development followed by hands-on practice. For more coding practice, we issue challenges towards the end of each chapter. We encourage you to take on at least some of these. They are excellent for firming up the concepts introduced in the chapter and making you a more confident iOS programmer. Finally, most chapters conclude with one or two For the More Curious sections that explain certain consequences of the concepts that were introduced earlier.

Chapter 1 introduces you to iOS programming as you build and deploy a tiny application. You’ll get your feet wet with Xcode and the iOS simulator along with all the steps for creating projects and files. The chapter ...

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