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This is a learning experience, not a reference book. We deliberately stripped out everything that might get in the way of learning whatever it is we’re working on at that point in the book. And the first time through, you need to begin at the beginning, because the book makes assumptions about what you’ve already seen and learned.

We start off by building an app in the very first chapter.

Believe it or not, even if you’ve never developed for iOS before, you can jump right in and starting building apps. You’ll also learn your way around the tools used for iOS development.

We don’t worry about preparing your app to submit to the App Store until the end of book.

In this book, you can get on with the business of learning how to create iOS apps without stressing over the packaging and distribution of your app out of the gate. But we know that’s what everyone who wants to build an iOS app ultimately wants to do, so we cover that process (and all its glorious gotchas) in an Appendix at the end.