Objective-C Phrasebook gives you the code phrases you need to quickly and effectively complete your programming projects with Objective-C, on systems including iOS and Mac OS X.
Concise and Accessible
Easy to carry and easy to use–lets you ditch all those bulky books for one portable pocket guide
Flexible and Functional
Packed with more than 100 customizable code snippets–so you can readily code elegant Objective-C in just about any situation
About the Author
David Chisnall is a freelance writer and consultant.
While studying for his PhD, he co-founded the
Étoilé project, which aims to produce an opensource
desktop environment on top of GNUstep,
an open-source implementation of the OpenStep
and Cocoa APIs. He is an active contributor
to GNUstep and is the original author and
maintainer of the GNUstep Objective-C 2
runtime library and the associated compiler
support in the Clang compiler.
After completing his PhD, David hid in academia
for a while, studying the history of programming
languages. He finally escaped when he realized
that there were places off campus with an
equally good view of the sea and without
the requirement to complete quite so much
paperwork. He occasionally returns to collaborate
on projects involving modeling the semantics of
dynamic languages.
David has a great deal of familiarity with
Objective-C, having worked both on projects
using the language and on implementing the
language itself. He has also worked on implementing
other languages, including dialects of Smalltalk
and JavaScript, on top of an Objective-C
runtime, allowing mixing code between all of
these languages without bridging.
When not writing or programming, David enjoys
dancing Argentine Tango and Cuban Salsa,
playing badminton and ultimate frisbee, and
cooking.
