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iPhone Development: Objective C Pt 4

Objective C LoopingLooping, Decision Making & Arithmetic Operation’s

In this article, I’ll review how to perform action’s repetitively with looping. I’ll then cover how to program decision making into your Objective C code. Finally, I’ll go over all of the arithmetic operation’s that are built into Objective C.

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iPhone Apps: Objective C Pt 3

Data Type’s in Objective C

Apple KeyboardIn this article I’ll go over all of the data type’s available to you with Objective C. They include:

  • int: Positive or negative number’s, without a decimal point
  • float: Positive or negative numbers, with a decimal point
  • double: Large floats
  • char: Single character’s
  • id: Generic datatype used to store a reference to an object. I’ll cover this in detail later.
  • arrays: Think of an array as a big box, with many boxes inside of it. Each of the boxes inside the big box contain a value.
  • strings: A string of characters

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iPhone Development : Objective C Pt 2

iPhone DevelopmentIn the previous article I gave you a brief overview of Object Oriented programming and showed you a little Objective C code. Objective C is the language used to program on all the Apple device’s and in this article you’ll learn a lot more about it.

Software you Need

To develop iPhone app’s you will need to download some free software from Apple. You get it online here: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/. It’s called the iPhone SDK and the current version is 3.2 as of this writing.

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iPhone Apps: Objective C Development Pt. 1

xCode iPhone App DevelopmentHere I begin my tutorial on iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad development. It’s surprisingly easy to develop for these device’s if you have a background in programming.

You must learn a new language to be able to develop anything on these device’s and that is Objective C. In this tutorial I will begin by explaining Object Oriented Programming using Objective C.

I wrote and taped a tutorial on OOP using JavaScript. I go into a lot of detail and give a bunch of example’s that explain OOP. You might want to watch / read that before proceeding?

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