
Learn how pointers and arrays work in Objective-C, including the address, indirection, and contents operators, pointer types, zero-based arrays, and printing with printf using %f and %s.
Explore objective-c properties and methods, including automatic getters and setters via self, dash versus plus methods, underscore ivars, and core types id and nil.
Explore inheritance and polymorphism in Objective-C by examining superclasses, method overriding, and dynamic binding, with examples of init, super calls, and structuring transportation, car, bike, and airplane classes.
Explain NSString in Objective-C, including @ literals, init with string, and string with format, strong versus autoreleased objects, and mutable strings for in-place changes, plus converting between C strings and NSString.
Explore how extensions hide properties from the public implementation, making them private to the class's internal implementation and accessible only within the class.
Objective C is a native programming language used in developing Apple’s iOS and Mac OS X operating systems as well as its applications. This course on Objective-C programming language is designed to serve as both a concise quick-reference and a comprehensive introduction for newcomers to the language.
The most important thing to do when learning Objective-C is to focus on concepts and not get lost in language technical details.
The purpose of learning a programming language is to become a better programmer, that is to become more effective at designing and implementing new systems and at maintaining old ones.
Objective-C has large base of iOS users and largely increasing Mac OS X users and since Apple focuses on quality first, its wonderful for those who started learning Objective-C.
Designed by seasoned experts and tutors who know exactly how to present the course in a systematic step by step manner - this is by far the most thorough Objective C course available anywhere - online today!
If you've struggled with other Objective C online courses, that confuse you and cause you to drop out - this is exactly what you're looking for.
The full course spans over a total of about three hours of high quality video training. All topics are easy to learn and presented in digestible short 5 to 15 minute videos. The course contains discussions, demos, and exercises to test your skill. All demos come with full source code.
We start the course with some of the important design patterns used when developing in Objective - C for iPhones and iPads.