It is a great honor that I get to work with such amazing people. Several of them put a lot of time and energy into making this book great. I’d like to take this moment to thank them.
Mikey Ward wrote several chapters of this book including Your First iOS Application, Your First Cocoa Program, and Blocks. If I were a nicer boss, I would have put his name on the cover.
The other instructors who teach the Objective-C materials fed us with a never-ending stream of suggestions and corrections. They are Scott Ritchie, Mark Fenoglio, Brian Hardy, Christian Keur, and Alex Silverman.
My tireless editor, Susan Loper, took my stream-of-consciousness monologue that stumbled across everything a programmer needs to know and honed it into an approachable primer.
Several technical reviewers helped me find and fix flaws. They are James Majors, Mark Dalrymple, Scott Steinman, Bart Hoffman, Bolot Kerimbaev, and Nate Chandler.
Ellie Volckhausen designed the cover.
Chris Loper at IntelligentEnglish.com designed and produced the EPUB and Kindle versions.
The amazing team at Pearson Technology Group patiently guided us through the business end of book publishing.