Programming iOS 4: Fundamentals of iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch Development

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Product Details

Paperback: 834 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (June 2, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1449388434
ISBN-13: 978-1449388430
Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.3 x 2.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

By : Matt Neuburg
List Price : ~~$49.99~~
Price : $40.23
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Customer Reviews

This book was a little late in getting published, so I tried a few other iOS programming books along the way. They were either lacking depth or left way too many of my questions unanswered. When I finally received this book and started to skim through it I was squealing like a schoolgirl. "Oh, that's how that works!" and "well why didn't the Apple documentation explain that!" It's all presented quite well and logically and with an appealing adult (but not at all dry) tone. It's also the only book I've seen so far that covers Xcode 4. Worth the wait, most definitely.
And even though this book says "Fundamentals of ...", if you just want to get in fast and start hacking iOS code you should probably look elsewhere---then come back to this book when you've gotten it out of your system and nothing works anymore and you're completely lost and confused.
-Ben

The first book I bought from Matt Neuberg was "REALbasic - The Definitive Guide" (in 2002 I think). I bought every REALbasic book which ever came on the market, but even now (when the book is so outdated as to be Win3.1 to Windows 7 or MacOS 7 to MacOS X Lion) it is still by far the best book on REALbasic programming. Just imagine a book on MacOS 7 / Win3.1 programming which is so good that it is even now the best book on MacOS X Lion / Windows programming.
So with this in mind I ordered his iOS4 book - and after just a few days I can already say this is the book to get. Despite my high expectations I wasn't being disappointed - like his "REALbasic - TDG) this book is also a definitive guide. He doesn't just show you what to do, he explains why you do it and why you'd want to do it. I have 7 books on how to program in X-Code, Objective C, iOS - but they just don't compare to this one. Matt Neuberg should have just called it "The definitive guide" again ;-)