Objective-C for Swift Developers

Preface

• Introduction

Overview

• Concepts
• Basic syntax
• Pointers
• The size of integers
• What is truth?
• Format specifiers

Data types

• Strings
• Numbers
• Arrays
• Dictionaries
• Sets
• Generics
• NSValue
• NSData
• NSObject
• id and instancetype
• NSError
• Blocks
• Project 1: Hangman

Classes

• Introduction to classes
• Methods
• Properties
• Creating objects
• Categories and class extensions
• Protocols
• Nullability
• Project 2: Sci-Fi Quotes

Preprocessor

• Inside the preprocessor
• Defining object-like macros
• Metadata macros
• Defining function-like macros
• Project 3: Swifty Commits

Advanced Topics

• Automatic Reference Counting
• Autorelease pools
• Objective-C++

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