Your Roadmap to iOS Development

One book can’t be everything to everyone. Try as we might, if we were to pack everything you need to know into this book, you wouldn’t be able to pick it up. There is, indeed, a lot you need to know to develop for the Mac and iOS platforms. If you are just starting out and don’t have any programming experience, your first course of action should be to take a college-level course in the C programming language.

When you know C and how to work with a compiler (something you’ll learn in that basic C course), the rest should be easy. From there, you can hop right on to Objective-C and explore how to program with it alongside the Cocoa frameworks. The flowchart shown in Figure P-1 shows you key titles offered by Pearson ...

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