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| Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X | 
 enlarge | Author: Aaron Hillegass
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 1777
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3
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Pages: 464
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7 x 1.4
ISBN: 0321503619
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.268
EAN: 9780321503619
Publication Date: May 15, 2008
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Best book to start with! August 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Awesome book, very approachable. For anyone coming to Mac programming for the first time, this is the book to start with.
Not as scary as I thought. July 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've had a project on the back burner for some time that required me to get to grips with Cocoa: no ifs, no buts. My timing wasn't ideal as XCode had gone from version 2 to version 3 without the documentation being updated, so I've been gingerly playing with Cocoa for about 5 months, but not really getting very far owing to the hurdles presented by the many interface changes.
Starting this book was nothing less than a revelation. I'm up to p77 of 418 pages and am surprised how quickly I'm getting to grips with tricky objective-c syntax (although it's really not too bad once you stop being scared of square brackets) and working with Interface Builder. The trickiest subject is memory management, and I must say I was rocking backwards and forwards gibbering 'this is hard, I'm not stupid' and clutching tightly to my degree certificate as Aaron recommends, but even this rather murky subject is beginning to sink in.
His writing style is very fluent and his many years of experience teaching people this technology is evident from the content. I'd shy away from saying this is a book for beginners, but if you've got a smattering of programming experience (PHP and a spot of Ruby is my background) and want to write good programs for the Rolls Royces of home computing, then this book has got to be at the top of your shopping list (assuming you've already bought a Mac that is! ).
 Beware Xcode3 is here! July 8, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I've just bought the 2nd edition of this book (yellow cover) to save money. It seems to be a good book - clear and well laid out... BUT THERES A PROBLEM...
To use this book, you download Xcode3 tool from Apple.com (easy and free)
The 2nd Edition of the this book (Yellow cover) relates to Xcode2 and is badly out of date.. its not possible to follow the picture instructions since one of the key applications (interface builder) has completely changed.
So I would strongly advise to buy the 3rd Edition (grey/green cover)... even though its a packet more expensive... I guess this is the cost of evolution!
Unless of course you would like to buy my 2nd edition.. which I now can't use?? :D
The perfect starting point for learning Cocoa/Obj-C June 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As someone who made the switch to Macs/OS X just over 18-months ago, my interest in how the OS worked led me to buying this book. It's probably the best computer book I've bought full-stop.
This is THE BOOK you need to buy for a first-class authoritative introduction to Cocoa, the programming environment for OS X.
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.
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