Pharmaceutical Microbiology (Hardcover)

Salient Features
* Updated to include coverage of the iOS 5 SDK and Xcode 4.2's Automatic Reference Counting (ARC)
* Detailed examples and well-crafted exercises greatly expedite the learning process
* Written by a bestselling author with a patented technique for teaching in a manner and at a pace that readers find accessible and easy to learn with

About the Author
Stephen Kochan is the author and coauthor of several bestselling titles on the C language, including Programming in C (Sams, 2004), Programming in ANSI C (Sams, 1994), and Topics in C Programming (Wiley, 1991), and several Unix titles, including Exploring the Unix System (Sams, 1992) and Unix Shell Programming (Sams, 2003). He has been programming on Macintosh computers since the introduction of the first Mac in 1984, and he wrote Programming C for the Mac as part of the Apple Press Library. In 2003 Kochan wrote Programming in Objective-C (Sams, 2003), and followed that with another Mac-related title, Beginning AppleScript (Wiley, 2004).

Table of Contents
1 Introduction
2 Programming in Objective-C
3 Classes, Objects, and Methods
4 Data Types and Expressions
5 Program Looping
6 Making Decisions
7 More on Classes
8 Inheritance
9 Polymorphism, Dynamic Typing, and Dynamic Binding
10 More on Variables and Data Types
11 Categories and Protocols
12 The Preprocessor
13 Underlying C Language Features
14 Introduction to the Foundation Framework
15 Numbers, Strings, and Collections
16 Working with Files
17 Memory Management and Automatic Reference Counting
18 Copying Objects
19 Archiving
20 Introduction to Cocoa and Cocoa Touch
21 Writing iOS Applications
A Glossary
B Address Book Example Source Code