Hour 3. Discovering Objective-C: The Language of Apple Platforms

What You’ll Learn in This Hour: How Objective-C will be used in your projects The basics of object-oriented programming Simple Objective-C syntax Common data types How to manage memory

This hour’s lesson marks the midpoint in our exploration of the Apple iPhone development platform. It will give us a chance to sit back, catch our breath, and get a better idea of what it means to “code” for the iPhone. Both the Macintosh and the iPhone share a common development environment and, with them, a common development language: Objective-C.