iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

Style Choices

This book contains a lot of code. We have attempted to make that code and the designs behind it exemplary. We have done our best to follow the idioms of the community, but at times we have wandered from what you might see in Apple’s sample code or code you might find in other books. You may not understand these points now, but it is best that we spell them out before you commit to reading this book:

• We typically create view controllers programmatically. Some programmers will instantiate view controllers inside XIB files or in a storyboard. We will discuss storyboards and demonstrate their use a little, but, in reality, we seldom use them in our projects at Big Nerd Ranch.

• We will nearly always start a project with ...