Class overview :

Class goals :

This course is for those who have relatively little programming experience. Unlike many Objective C programming courses, this course covers the underlying C on which Objective C is based in considerable detail. It also provides a sound introduction to Object Oriented programming concepts and practice and introduces and makes extensive use of UML diagrams to explain and communicate these concepts and practices.

Content of A Comprehensive Introduction to Objective-C Programming

Overview of C and Objective C

Introduction to Object Oriented concepts and Object Oriented Programming

Mastering the XCode IDE (Integrated Development Environment)

• creating and building projects

The C foundations of Objective C

• basic data types
• variables, operators, expressions and operators
• functions
• flow control
  • if – else, and switch statements
  • for, while and do – while statements
  • break, continue, goto
  • arrays and pointers
  • data structures

Introduction to Object Oriented Thinking and Programming

• classes
• instances
• inheritance
• polymorphism

Understanding the Objective C runtime

• creation, management and destruction of objects
• class interface specification
• visibility modifiers
• class implementation
• creating instances of classes
• invoking methods on instances

Advanced Topics

• Dynamic typing and binding
  • the id type
  • how dynamic binding works
  • using isKindOf to determine the type of an instance
  • case study: linked lists containing a variety of node types
• protocols
  • basic concept
  • inheritance of protocols
  • conformsTo
• Categories
  • Categories as an alternative to subclassing

Introduction to the Objective C Foundation Classes

Introduction to Frameworks

• Overview of the Cocoa framework
• Overview of Cocoa Touch