Tech Life from Fresno

iOS4 Programming Cookbook is geared towards the iOS programmer who has passed the novice stage, but isn’t necessarily an expert. You should know the basics of building an iPhone app including:

• Objective C
• Linking code with Interface Builder (IBOutlet, IBAction)
• UIView general usage

My perspective is having gone through many samples from books and now I have an idea of what I want to create: a tab bar application that uses some Quart 2D graphics to display a pie chart and a simple bar chart.

The Table of Contents is well laid out, which is important for a “cookbook” type of programming guide. I immediately jumped to Chapter 14 “Graphics.”

Each chapter starts with a simple introduction and then builds up the subject with some cases. What it doesn’t do is walk you through the steps to creating an app and the reader shouldn’t expect that.

This is the kind of book you keep in your arsenal of tools and it lends itself to an ebook format where you will jump to sections as needed.