iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

Our Teaching Philosophy

This book will teach you the essential concepts of iOS programming. At the same time, you will type in a lot of code and build a bunch of applications. By the end of the book, you will have knowledge and experience. However, all the knowledge should not (and, in this book, will not) come first. That is sort of the traditional way we have all come to know and hate. Instead, we take a learn-while-doing approach. Development concepts and actual coding go together.

Here is what we have learned over the years of teaching iOS programming:

• We have learned what ideas people must grasp to get started programming, and we focus on that subset.

• We have learned that people learn best when these concepts are introduced ...