Big Nerd Ranch plans new book release, iPhone and iPad Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

Big Nerd Ranch, in conjunction with Pearson Education, announces the launch of their 2010 Big Nerd Ranch Series with its first book: iPhone and iPad Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, by Joe Conway and Aaron Hillegass. This iPhone and iPad book will be the most comprehensive, well-tested book on the tools and techniques for writing applications on the iPhone and iPad. It covers topics like animation, web services, multitouch events, and custom drawing. The book will address the update in the iPhone's operating system from 3.0 to 3.2, making it the most relevant and timely book in the iPhone/iPad category. "iPhone and iPad Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide" will be available March 19th, 2010.

Based on Big Nerd Ranch’s “Beginning iPhone Bootcamp,” iPhone and iPad Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide leads beginners through the essential facets of iPhone application development. After completing the guide, readers will have the confidence to take on iPhone projects of their own. The confidence comes from the guide’s emphasis on building applications while learning the necessary programming concepts.

Programmers who are new to the platform will appreciate the guide’s learn-while-doing approach. Each chapter introduces or further develops an application that’s been carefully designed and tested to teach concepts and provide real experience. Some apps are small stubs completed in a chapter. Others span chapters and offer practice working with complex apps and advanced tools like Xcode, Interface Builder, and Instruments.

Joe Conway is the senior iPhone instructor at the Big Nerd Ranch and has been consulting on the iPhone platform since its creation. A University of Wisconsin graduate, he has been writing Objective-C and Cocoa code since the dawn of OS X. Joe wrote the materials for the exceptionally popular Big Nerd Ranch iPhone Bootcamp, which eventually evolved into this book.

Aaron Hillegass is the founder of Big Nerd Ranch and the developer of the very popular Campwhere iPhone application. A former employee at NeXT and Apple, he has twenty years experience with Objective-C and Cocoa. Aaron wrote Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, the standard text on developing Mac applications.