Chapter 2. Blast-Off!

The first program we shall attempt, as mentioned in Chapter 1, will be a basic and generic "Hello World" application. I need to clarify, though, that as regarding most things in the Objective-C context, it will not necessarily be simple.

Our first adventure with this new set of tools will be saying "Hello" to the world from the View-based Application template in Xcode. Later, we will say "Hello" to the world from the Navigation-based Application template, first in a very basic way and then with some modifications.

Besides the information I present here in this book, including various screenshots, I also offer you screencasts, which are available at my website. In this chapter we will work through three examples, and you can ...

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