Stuart Grimshaw - Mastering macOS Programming

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First published: May 2017

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ISBN 978-1-78646-169-8

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Stuart Grimshaw has programmed for Apple computers since the days before OS X and has been involved with developing for the Apple Watch since its release. Born in the UK and having lived in Germany and the Netherlands, he is currently a freelance iOS/tvOS/macOS developer in Auckland, New Zealand, where he works on some of Australia-New Zealand's largest video and TV delivery apps and leads the research and development of both watchOS and tvOS applications. He is passionate about the potential of the Apple Watch and Apple TV, as well as Apple's Swift programming language, and is a keen proponent of beach coding.

Fernando Rodrguez has more than 20 years of experience in developing and teaching other developers. Although he currently specializes in the Apple stack of tools, hes a nerd of all trades with a strong interest in big data and automated trading.

He has taught iOS development at the Big Nerd Ranch, Udacity, and Keepcoding, ranging from Facebook developers to indie devs.

He was awarded as an "Outstanding instructor" at Udemy for his introductory course to iOS development. This course was mentioned in the Financial Times, Venture beat, and InformationWeek.

Code long and prosper!

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This book will take your Swift programming skills to a level at which you can work as a professional software engineer, using a step-by-step approach, ensuring that the introduction of each new concept is preceded by a thorough understanding of those preceding it.

The book covers a range of technologies, particularly those that you'll typically need, if not on day one of a new project (or a new job), then at least pretty soon after. These include not just Apple's Xcode, but also the Terminal app, Git version control, package management, the Swift REPL, and the LLDB debugger, all of which are essential skills.

Each chapter focuses on a particular topic or technology, giving you a deep dive into the skills and know-how that will take your work to a professional standard, in terms of code quality, maintainability, and robustness. This entails general topics, such as programming paradigms and design patterns, a general look at the Cocoa frameworks and their place in the macOS ecosystem, and of course specific technologies around networking, storage, and advanced graphics and animation.

Furthermore, a significant portion of the text is devoted to such thorny issues as concurrency, asynchronous programming, and error handling.

By the end of this book, you will be able to confidently approach projects of much greater size and complexity, and be well placed to comfortably deal with the various issues that all programming inevitably brings with it.

Coding is a never-ending journey. This book aims to get you on the right track, and a fair way along it.

, Hello macOS, explores the context in which the rest of the book is set and takes a look at developing for Apple platforms in general, and the direction that development is heading in.