Objective-C Programmer's Reference

Carlos Oliveira works in the area of quantitative finance, with more than ten years of experience in creating scientific and financial models in C++. During his career, Carlos has developed several large-scale applications for financial companies such as Bloomberg L.P. and F-Squared Investments. Carlos Oliveira obtained a PhD in Operations Research and Systems Engineering from the University of Florida, an MSc in Computer Science from UFC (Brazil), and a BSc in Computer Science from UECE (Brazil). He has also performed academic research in the field of combinatorial optimization, with applications in diverse areas such as finance, telecommunications, computational biology, and logistics. Carlos has written more than 30 academic papers on optimization, and authored three books, including Practical C++ Financial Programming (Apress, 2015).

• Part I: The Language 1. The C in Objective-C 2. Classes 3. Strings and Container Classes 4. Protocols and Categories 5. Inheritance 6. Block Syntax 7. Dynamic Binding 8. Memory Management 9. Key-Value Programming 10. The Filesystem Part II: Reference 11. The Foundation Framework Part III: The Tools 12. The Compiler 13. The Preprocessor 14. Unit Test 15. Debugging Part IV: Writing Apps for OS X and iOS 16. Cocoa Framework Example 17. Cocoa Touch Example