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Mastering macOS Programming

Mastering macOS Programming

By : Gregory Casamento, Stuart Grimshaw
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Mastering macOS Programming

Mastering macOS Programming

3.2 (6)
By: Gregory Casamento, Stuart Grimshaw

Overview of this book

macOS continues to lead the way in desktop operating systems, with its tight integration across the Apple ecosystem of platforms and devices. With this book, you will get an in-depth knowledge of working on macOS, enabling you to unleash the full potential of the latest version using Swift 3 to build applications. This book will help you broaden your horizons by taking your programming skills to next level. The initial chapters will show you all about the environment that surrounds a developer at the start of a project. It introduces you to the new features that Swift 3 and Xcode 8 offers and also covers the common design patterns that you need to know for planning anything more than trivial projects. You will then learn the advanced Swift programming concepts, including memory management, generics, protocol orientated and functional programming and with this knowledge you will be able to tackle the next several chapters that deal with Apple’s own Cocoa frameworks. It also covers AppKit, Foundation, and Core Data in detail which is a part of the Cocoa umbrella framework. The rest of the book will cover the challenges posed by asynchronous programming, error handling, debugging, and many other areas that are an indispensable part of producing software in a professional environment. By the end of this book, you will be well acquainted with Swift, Cocoa, and AppKit, as well as a plethora of other essential tools, and you will be ready to tackle much more complex and advanced software projects.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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LLDB and the Command Line
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LLDB and the Command Line

In this chapter, we're going to shift up a gear and reach deep into the LLDB environment, the debugging tool integrated into Xcode, both in Xcode itself and as a standalone process. Some of this stuff may look a little esoteric at first glance, but rest assured, it is anything but.

LLDB stands for Low Level Debugger

Working professionally as a developer means being comfortable with the command line, being aware of what is available in LLDB, and having at least a working knowledge of the scripting languages that are a part of developing software on almost all platforms.

It's also really, really cool. Once you have a bit of momentum behind you, you'll wonder how you ever lived without these tools, which allow you to automate, customize, and get right into the inner workings of your code.

In this chapter, you will learn about the following:

  • What LLDB does
  • Running code...
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