1 You and This Book

Let’s talk about you for a minute. You want to write applications for iOS or OS X, but you have not done much (or any) programming in the past. Your friends have raved about other Big Nerd Ranch books (like iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide and Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X), but they are written for experienced programmers. What should you do?

Read this book.

There are similar books, but this one is the one you should read. Why? We have been teaching people how to write applications for iOS and the Mac for a long time now, and we have identified what you need to know at this point in your journey. We have worked hard to capture that knowledge and dispose of everything else. There is a lot of wisdom and ...

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