Chapter 0: Introduction

• The Development Environment
• Why Objective-C
• How The Manual is Organized
• Conventions

• Interface and Implementation
• The Object Model
  • The Messaging Metaphor
  • Classes
  • Mechanisms of Abstraction
  • Inheritance
  • Dynamism
• Sructuring Programs
  • Outlet Connections
  • Aggregation and Decomposition
  • Models and Fremeworks
• Structuring the Programming Task
  • Collaboration
  • Organizing Object-Oriented Projects

• Objects
  • ID
  • Dynamic Typing
• Messages
  • The Receiver's Instance Variables
  • Polymorphism
  • Dynamic Binding
• Classes
  • Inheritance
  • Class Types
  • Class Objects
  • Class Names in Source Code
• Defining a Class
  • The Interface
  • The Implementation
• How Messaging Works
  • Selectors
  • Hidden Arguments
  • Messages to self and super

• Categories
  • Adding to a Class
  • How Categories are Used
  • Categories of the Root Class
• Protocols
  • How Protocols are Used
  • Informal Protocols
  • Formal Protocols
• Remote Messaging
  • Distributed Objects
  • Language Support
• Static Options
  • Static Typing
  • Getting a Method Address
  • Getting an Object Data Structure
• Type Encoding

• Allocation and Initialization
  • Allocating Memory for Objects
  • Initializing New Objects
  • Combining Allocation and Initialization
  • Deallocation
• Forwarding
  • Forwarding and Multiple Inheritance
  • Surrogate Objects
  • Making Forwarding Transparent
• Dynamic Loading

• Messages
• Defined Types
• Preprocessor Directives
• Compiler Directives
• Classes
• Categories
• Formal Protocols
• Method Declarations
• Method Implementations
• Naming Conventions

• External Declarations
• Type Specifiers
• Type Qualifiers
• Primary Expressions
• Glossary