<p><b>Create your own iPhone OS and Mac OS X applications with ease!</b><p><i>Objective-C for iPhone Developers: A Beginner's Guide</i> shows you how to use the Objective-C programming language and Apple's Foundation Framework so you can write innovative Mac OS software and iPhone applications. The first stop for aspiring iPhone developers, this hands-on guide teaches you, step-by-step, how to create well-organized and focused applications that have a simple and easy user interface.<p><b><i>Objective-C for iPhone Developers: A Beginner's Guide</i> features:</b><ul><li>An introduction to Objective-C with a focus on developing apps for the iPhone <li>A &#8220;from the ground up&#8221; approach--no prior experience necessary<li>Hands-on tutorials so you can learn by doing<li>Real-world examples with corresponding downloadable Xcode projects</ul><p><b>Essential programming skills made easy, including:</b><br>Introduction to Objective-C and Foundation Framework; Setting Up the iPhone SDK; Primitive Data Types and Operators; Control Statements; Classes, Objects, and Messaging; Properties; Memory Management; Inheritance; Protocols and Categories; Polymorphism; Strings, Numbers, and Dates; Collections; Exceptions and Errors; File I/O; Copying and Archiving; Selectors; Notifications; Multithreaded Programming