Learning Objective-C 2.0: A Hands-on Guide to Objective-C for Mac and iOS Developers, Second Edition

Preface

Objective-C is an object-oriented extension to C. You could call it “C with Objects.” If you’re reading this book, you’re probably interested in learning Objective-C so that you can write applications for Mac OS X or for iOS. But there’s another reason to learn Objective-C: It’s a fun language and one that is relatively easy to learn. Like anything else in the real world, Objective-C has some rough spots, but on the whole it is a much simpler language than some other object-oriented languages, particularly C++. The additions that Objective-C makes to C can be listed on a page or two.

Objective-C was initially created by Brad J. Cox in the early 1980s. In 1988, NeXT Computer, the company started by Steve Jobs after he left Apple, licensed ...