Objective-C Essential Training

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know

• Installing the tools
• Creating your first application
• Introduction to Xcode
• Using Objective-C frameworks

• Why use Objective-C?
• The structure of an Objective-C program
• Compiling and building your application

• Logging messages and using format strings
• The if statement
• Using switch statements
• Operators and expressions
• Working with loops
• Creating functions
• Using code snippets

• Data types in Objective-C
• Numeric data types
• Using chars and BOOL
• Understanding variable scope in Objective-C
• Creating enumerations
• Using string objects

• Introduction to object-orientation terms
• Using pointers
• Messages and method calls
• Using classes in the Foundation framework

• Memory management in Objective-C
• Object-creation (instantiation) options
• Autoreleased objects

• Creating your own classes
• Adding methods
• Adding class properties
• Using initializers and object keywords
• Using dealloc methods

• Working with C-style arrays
• Using Objective-C array classes
• Creating dictionary objects
• Fast enumeration

• Introduction to file management
• Finding the user directories
• File and URL paths
• Reading and writing strings
• Archiving custom objects to a file
• Unarchiving objects

• Inheritance and overriding in Objective-C
• Adding categories to an existing class
• Using class extensions
• Using protocols
• Dynamic typing in Objective-C

• Common compile-time errors and warnings
• Adding exception handling
• Adding breakpoints and debugging code

• Goodbye