3. Simple Workflow and Passive Debugging

This chapter begins your use of Xcode in earnest. Here’s where I introduce the problem that is the basis for all of the example code in this book.

The problem is the calculation of passer ratings. In American/Canadian football, quarterbacks advance the ball by throwing (passing) it to other players. The ball may be caught (received, a good thing) by someone on the quarterback’s own team, in which case the ball is advanced (yardage, more is better), possibly to beyond the goal line (a touchdown, the object of the game); or it may be caught by a member of the opposing team (intercepted, a very bad thing).

But those are four numbers, and everybody wants a figure-of-merit, a single scale that says (accurately ...

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