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Cocoa: Programming for OS X | 
 enlarge | Author: Aaron Hillegass
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Category: Book
List Price: £35.99
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 223175
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 480
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7 x 1.1
ISBN: 0321213149
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.268
UPC: 785342213140
EAN: 9780321213143
ASIN: 0321213149
Publication Date: May 13, 2004
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Very good January 5, 2008
This is a very good book for a foundation in cocoa.
The author knows his stuff and history of the subject and writes in an easy to understand way.
Far better than the ADC book.
One note of warning is that Apple changed Interface Builder in XCode 3 so all the examples need slight re-working if you are going to be using XCode 3. This is a bit confusing to begin with but once you work out what you need to do differently it is not a problem.
Excellent Start to Mac OS X Programming September 29, 2007
This is an excellent book that covers the basics to Cocoa programming, showing you how to make a basic Cocoa program and get going. Although I quickly got the hang of the basics of Cocoa I still use it heavily as a reference along with Apples official Cocoa documentation. As has been mentioned it was written for Panther (Mac OS X 10.3) but is still totally compatible with Tiger (10.4). The only major thing the book does fail to cover is Core Data which was released with Tiger, but Apple has an excellent tutorial for that which is completely compatible with this book.
Quickest way to become a decent Mac programmer September 26, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The best part is that it's full of really useful Cocoa-specific programming patterns/best practices. You can tell that author of this book has experience with Cocoa since it even wasn't called Cocoa yet :)
Book has been written for Panther (10.3), but in Tiger (10.4) everything works exactly as described (all is still up-to date, I haven't found a single deprecated method in this book).
It has useful examples that are very close to the real-world applications and it teaches how to write a proper, well-behaved Mac applications with drag'n'drop, localization, per-user settings, ubiquitous undo, AppleScript, etc.
Absolutely Fantastic July 8, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book has to be the best introduction to Cocoa programming I have found, the book has clear structure and explains everything in an interesting, no nonsense fashion.
You must already know C/C++ to use this book, which was a great plus for me, as alot of the other books waisted several chapters on introducing basic programming topics. If you don't know C or C++ then I recommend reading a beginners Objective C book or tutorial, such as the one on Apple's Website.
The book walks you through several small projects which introduce key concepts and design procedures in Cocoa, at the end of each chapter you are given additional tasks, e.g. Adding additional preferences to a window, etc. Once you have read through the book you will have good understanding of how a Cocoa program is created, and how all the components fit together.
Once you have finished the book, you will be able to create simple programs, and move on to the more advanced topics and guides, specifically the excellent documentation on Apple's Website.
If I have one complaint about the book, it is the lack of any information about creating Toolbars, although a quick search on the Internet will reveal how to do this.
I thoroughly recommend this book for anyone interesting in learning Cocoa
Fine introduction to Cocoa, now updated for Xcode October 29, 2004
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I can echo the positive comments of other reviewers and would just add that the 2nd edition (summer 2004) is even better because it is based on Panther and Xcode throughout. This gives it an edge over the other introductory books, which at present are I believe all based on the earlier development environment (ProjectBuilder). For a beginner like me it is helpful if the screenshots show the application you are actually using!Mr Hillegass writes well, and his experience in running training courses shows through clearly.
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