Your Roadmap to Mac/iOS Development

One book can’t be everything to everyone. If we were to pack everything you need to know into this book, you wouldn’t be able to pick it up. (As it stands, this book offers an excellent tool for upper-body development. Please don’t sue if you strain yourself lifting it.) 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. Although the alphabet might start with the letter A, the root of most programming languages, and certainly your path as a developer, is C.

Once you know C and how to work with a compiler (something ...

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