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Sams Teach Yourself Core Data for Mac and iOS in 24 Hours (2nd Edition)

Posted by Unknown On 4/9/12

Book Description

In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, start using Core Data to build powerful data-driven apps for iOS devices and Mac OS X computers! Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll discover how Apple’s built-in data persistence framework can help you meet any data-related requirement, from casual to enterprise-class. Beginning with the absolute basics, you’ll learn how to create data models, build interfaces, interact with users, work with data sources and table views. Every lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, giving you a rock-solid foundation for real-world success!

Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common Core Data development tasks.

Quizzes and Exercises at the end of each chapter help you test your knowledge.

Notes present interesting information related to the discussion.

Tips offer advice or show you easier ways to perform tasks.

Cautions alert you to possible problems and give you advice on how to avoid them.

Jesse Feiler is a leading expert on Apple database development. Feiler has worked with databases since the 1980s, writing about technologies that have since evolved into Core Data. His database clients have included Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Young & Rubicam, and many small and nonprofit organizations. His recent books include Data-Driven iOS Apps for iPad and iPhone with FileMaker Pro, Bento by FileMaker, and FileMaker Go; and FileMaker 12 in Depth.

Learn how to…

• Start writing database apps fast, with Xcode 4’s powerful tools and templates

• Master the Objective-C features and patterns Core Data relies upon

• Understand Core Data’s goals, components, and behavior

• Model data graphically with Xcode 4’s Data Model Editor

• Leverage the full power of Managed Objects

• Use controllers to integrate your data model with your code

• Fetch, use, and store data from any source

• Develop interfaces and features more quickly with Interface Builder

• Add navigation and control features that integrate seamlessly with Core Data

• Interact with users via popovers, segmented controls, action sheets, and tab bars

• Create table views that users can edit

• Let Xcode 4 and Core Data validate your data for you

• Use predicates to precisely select the right data

• Get ready for iCloud features to sync and move data among your iCloud-enabled devices

Category: iOS/Mac Programming

Covers: Core Data

User Level: Beginning-to-Intermediate

About The Author

Jesse Feiler is a developer, web designer, trainer, and author. He has been an Apple developer since 1985 and has worked with mobile devices starting with Apple’s Newton and continuing with the iOS products such as the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Feiler’s database expertise includes mainframe databases such as DMS II (on Burroughs), DB2 (on IBM), and Oracle (on various platforms), as well as personal computer databases from dBase to the first versions of FileMaker. His database clients have included Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Young & Rubicam (advertising); and many small and nonprofit organizations, primarily in publishing, production, and management.

Feiler’s books include the following:

Sams Teach Yourself Objective-C in 24 Hours (Sams/Pearson)
Data-Driven iOS Apps for iPad and iPhone with FileMaker Pro, Bento by FileMaker, and FileMaker Go (Sams/Pearson)
FileMaker 12 in Depth (Sams/Pearson)
Using FileMaker Bento (Sams/Pearson)
iWork for Dummies (Wiley)
Sams Teach Yourself Drupal in 24 Hours (Sams/Pearson)
Get Rich with Apps! Your Guide to Reaching More Customers and Making Money NOW (McGraw-Hill)
Database-Driven Web Sites (Harcourt)
How to Do Everything with Web 2.0 Mashups (McGraw-Hill)
The Bento Book (Sams/Pearson)

He is the author of MinutesMachine, the meeting management software for iPad.

A native of Washington, D.C., Feiler has lived in New York City and currently lives in Plattsburgh, NY.

Product Details

Paperback: 480 pages
Publisher: Sams; 2 edition (June 22, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0672336197
ISBN-13: 978-0672336195
Product Dimensions: 7 x 1.2 x 9.1 inches

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Learn Objective-C on the Mac: For OS X and iOS (Learn Apress)

Posted by Unknown On 23/8/12

Book Description

Learn to write apps for some of today's hottest technologies, including the iPhone and iPad (using iOS), as well as the Mac (using OS X). It starts with Objective-C, the base language on which the native iOS software development kit (SDK) and the OS X are based. Learn Objective-C on the Mac: For OS X and iOS, Second Editionupdates a best selling book and is an extensive, newly updated guide to Objective-C.
Objective-C is a powerful, object-oriented extension of C, making this update the perfect follow-up to Dave Mark’s bestselling Learn C on the Mac. Whether you’re an experienced C programmer or you’re coming from a different language such as C++ or Java, leading Mac experts Scott Knaster and Waqar Malik show how to harness the power of Objective-C in your apps!

A complete course on the basics of Objective-C using Apple’s newest Xcode tools
An introduction to object-oriented programming
Comprehensive coverage of new topics like blocks, GCD, ARC, class extensions, as well as inheritance, composition, object initialization, categories, protocols, memory management, and organizing source files
An introduction to building user interfaces using what is called the UIKit
A primer for non-C programmers to get off the ground even faster

What you’ll learn

Learn Objective-C programming, the gateway to programming your iPhone, iPad or Mac
Write apps for the iOS and/or OS X interfaces, the cleanest user-interfaces around
Understand variables and how to design your own data structures
Work with the new Objective-C features now available in this update like blocks, automated reference counting (ARC) and class extensions
Work with new tools available like Clang static analyzer and Grand Central Dispatch (GCD)
Undertand UIKit and how to build simple user interfaces easily and effectively
Explore using the latest Xcode

Who this book is for

For anyone wanting to learn to program native apps in iOS and/or OS X, including developers new to the iOS-based iPhone and iPad as well as OS X-based Mac computers. This book is for developers new to Objective-C, but who have some programming experience.

Table of Contents

Hello
Extensions to C
Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming
Inheritance
Composition
Source File Organization and Using Xcode 4
More About Xcode
A Quick Tour of the Foundation Kit
Memory Management and ARC
Object Initialization
Properties
Categories
Protocols
Blocks and Concurrency
Introduction to UIKit
Introduction to the Application Kit
File Loading and Saving
Key-Value Coding
Using the Static Analyzer
NSPredicate

Appendix: Coming from Other Languages

About The Author

Scott Knasteris a legendary Mac hacker and author of such bestselling books as Hacking Mac OS X Tiger and Macintosh Programming Secrets. His book How to Write Macintosh Software was required reading for Mac programmers for more than a decade.
Mark Dalrymple has been a Mac developer since 1985 and a Unix programmer since 1990. Over the years, he has worked on projects ranging from cross-platform development tool kits to high-performance web server software servicing hundreds of millions of hits per day, medical applications, and video products for Hollywood. He is the coauthor of Core Mac OS X and Unix Programmingand Advanced Mac OS X Programming.