Objective-C Pocket Reference

Andrew Duncan started programming on Control Data 6600 hardware in 1974 and progressed on to Mac OS X. He holds a Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology, and a Masters in mathematics from the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is now on leave from doctoral work on compilers at UC Santa Barbara. He currently works at expertcity, designing the core class libraries.

What Is Objective-C? - Dynamic Dispatch, Dynamic Typing, Dynamic Loading, Which Objective-C?, How Do I Get Started?; Elements of the Language - Objects, Classes, Inheritance and Subtyping Fields, Methods, Categories, Protocols, Declarations, Predefined Types, Constants, and Variables; Compiler and Preprocessor Directives - Class Declarations and Definitions, Forward Declarations, Expanding Directives, Preprocessor Symbols; Compiler Flags; Remote Messaging - Pointer, Parameter Qualifiers, Return Value Qualifiers, Object Qualifiers; Object Lifecycle - Creating an Object, Copying an Object, Deallocating an Object; Runtime Errors - Object Error Handling, Exceptions in Cocoa, Runtime Environment, Class Objects, Metaclass Objects, Selectors, Protocol Objects; Root Classes - Fields, Methods, The Object Class, The NSObject Class; Forwarding Messages - Object Forwarding, NSObject Forwarding; Memory Management - Manual Memory Management, Reference Counting, Garbage Collection; Archiving Objects - Archiving Descendants of Object, Archiving Descendants of NSObject, Key-Value Coding, Access Permissions, NSKeyValueCoding Methods, Handling Key Lookup Failures, Optimizing Method Calls; Objective-C++; Objective-C Resources.