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Mastering macOS Programming.

By : Stuart Grimshaw, Gregory Casamento
Book Image

Mastering macOS Programming.

By: Stuart Grimshaw, Gregory Casamento

Overview of this book

macOS continues to lead the way in desktop operating systems, with its tight integration across the Apple ecosystem of platforms and devices. With this book, you will get an in-depth knowledge of working on macOS, enabling you to unleash the full potential of the latest version using Swift 3 to build applications. This book will help you broaden your horizons by taking your programming skills to next level. The initial chapters will show you all about the environment that surrounds a developer at the start of a project. It introduces you to the new features that Swift 3 and Xcode 8 offers and also covers the common design patterns that you need to know for planning anything more than trivial projects. You will then learn the advanced Swift programming concepts, including memory management, generics, protocol orientated and functional programming and with this knowledge you will be able to tackle the next several chapters that deal with Apple’s own Cocoa frameworks. It also covers AppKit, Foundation, and Core Data in detail which is a part of the Cocoa umbrella framework. The rest of the book will cover the challenges posed by asynchronous programming, error handling, debugging, and many other areas that are an indispensable part of producing software in a professional environment. By the end of this book, you will be well acquainted with Swift, Cocoa, and AppKit, as well as a plethora of other essential tools, and you will be ready to tackle much more complex and advanced software projects.
Table of Contents (28 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface
18
LLDB and the Command Line

And finally


Any book, however large, can only cover a small subset of the vast collection of topics that comprise macOS development. With the material in this book under your belt, you should be well placed to make best use of the huge pool of resources out there, although it is often hard to know where to start (and what to skip).

The book website

Accompanying this book is the following website: http://grimshaw.de/macOS-book.

This includes a (very subjective) list of resources for further reading and study, one that I hope will grow with time.

It covers several topics that would have been great to include in the book, but which didn't make it for reasons of space.

It will also record any errata and clarifications, as well updates to the code that become necessary as Swift develops, and there'll be a link through which you can submit feedback on the book, and any suggestions for inclusion on the site itself.

I hope that reading, and working though, this book has been both enjoyable and rewarding...