Objective-C Programming Objective-C Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide by Aaron Hillegass Copyright © 2011 Big Nerd Ranch, Inc.. Exclusive worldwide distribution of the English editio
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Objective-C Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide
by Aaron Hillegass
Copyright © 2011 Big Nerd Ranch, Inc
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2011931707
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Acknowledgments
It is a great honor that I get to work with such amazing people Several of them put a lot of time and
energy into making this book great I’d like to take this moment to thank them.
• Mikey Ward wrote several chapters of this book including Your First iOS Application, Your First
Cocoa Program , and Blocks If I were a nicer boss, I would have put his name on the cover.
• The other instructors who teach the Objective-C materials fed us with a never-ending stream of
suggestions and corrections They are Scott Ritchie, Mark Fenoglio, Brian Hardy, Christian Keur,
and Alex Silverman.
• My tireless editor, Susan Loper, took my stream-of-consciousness monologue that stumbled across
everything a programmer needs to know and honed it into an approachable primer.
• Several technical reviewers helped me find and fix flaws They are James Majors, Mark Dalrymple,
Scott Steinman, Bart Hoffman, Bolot Kerimbaev, and Nate Chandler.
• Ellie Volckhausen designed the cover.
• Chris Loper at IntelligentEnglish.com designed and produced the EPUB and Kindle versions.
• The amazing team at Pearson Technology Group patiently guided us through the business end of
book publishing.
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RIM has launched App World, Palm has its Palm Store, Nokia launched Ovi (its online store) and Microsoft has unveiled Windows Marketplace.
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• Total iOS app store downloads:
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• iPhone apps are being downloaded
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