Objective-C Pocket Reference

Objective-C is an exciting and dynamic approach to C- based object-oriented programming. It is the approach adopted by Apple as the foundation for programming under Mac OS X, a Unix-based operating system gaining wide acceptance among programmers and other technologists. Objective-C is easy to learn and has a simple elegance that is a welcome breath of fresh-air after the abstruse and confusing C++. Objective-C Pocket Reference provides a quick and concise introduction to Objective-C for beginner and experienced programmers alike. In addition to covering the essentials of Objective-C syntax, it also covers important facets of the language such as memory management, the Objective-C runtime, dynamic loading, distributed objects, and exception-handling.

Introduction	p. 1
What Is Objective-C?	p. 3
Dynamic Dispatch	p. 4
Dynamic Typing	p. 4
Dynamic Loading	p. 5
Which Objective-C?	p. 5
How Do I Get Started?	p. 6
Elements of the Language	p. 7
Objects	p. 7
Classes	p. 8
Inheritance and Subtyping	p. 13
Fields	p. 14
Methods	p. 16
Categories	p. 26
Protocols	p. 29
Declarations	p. 31
Predefined Types, Constants, and Variables	p. 34
Compiler and Preprocessor Directives	p. 37
Class Declarations and Definitions	p. 37
Forward Declarations	p. 38
Expanding Directives	p. 39
Preprocessor Symbols	p. 43
Compiler Flags	p. 43
Remote Messaging	p. 44
Pointer Parameter Qualifiers	p. 45
Return Value Qualifiers	p. 46
Object Qualifiers	p. 46
Object Lifecycle	p. 46
Creating an Object	p. 47
Copying an Object	p. 53
Deallocating an Object	p. 57
Runtime Errors	p. 58
Object Error Handling	p. 58
Exceptions in Cocoa	p. 60
Runtime Environment	p. 64
Class Objects	p. 64
Metaclass Objects	p. 66
Selectors	p. 68
Protocol Objects	p. 69
Root Classes	p. 69
Fields	p. 70
Methods	p. 70
The Object Class	p. 71
The NSObject Class	p. 79
Forwarding Messages	p. 89
Object Forwarding	p. 90
NSObject Forwarding	p. 91
Memory Management	p. 94
Manual Memory Management	p. 94
Reference Counting	p. 95
Garbage Collection	p. 100
Archiving Objects	p. 100
Archiving Descendants of Object	p. 101
Archiving Descendants of NSObject	p. 103
Key-Value Coding	p. 107
Access Permissions	p. 107
NSKeyValueCoding Methods	p. 108
Handling Key Lookup Failures	p. 111
Optimizing Method Calls	p. 111
Objective-C++	p. 113
Objective-C Resources	p. 114
Index	p. 116
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