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Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X

By Hillegass, Aaron

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Review Suitable for anyone with a little C++ programming experience who wants to create software for the newest Mac platform, Cocoa Programming for Max OS X provides a slickly packaged and approachable tutorial that will get you started creating state-of-the-art Mac programs.The smart presentation style and easy-to-understand code examples help make this text an excellent resource. It also helps that Hillegass is a truly engaging writer. He first explains how legacy NeXTSTEP platform has evolved into Cocoa on the Mac OS X. Starting with short examples illustrating the actual Cocoa tools in action, the author gets you started with simple programs for a random number generator, a raise calculator and other comprehensible examples. Rather than just listing APIs and classes, the emphasis is on hands-on Cocoa development. An early standout section provides a nice tour of essential Objective-C features you'll need to learn to use Cocoa effectively.This book covers the several dozen built-in Cocoa controls, from basic text and buttons to more advanced widgets (including lists and tables). Subsequent sections look at user interface design (using the Interface Builder to create nib files) and how to add programmatic processing behind the visual layout. Along the way, the author introduces coverage of essential Cocoa APIs for strings, arrays and dictionaries. Later chapters look at saving and loading documents (and user defaults) and how to tap the powerful graphics abilities available in Cocoa. (Besides image and basic drawing, there are short sections on PDF support and printing.) More advanced user interface features get their due by the end of the book, including cutting and pasting data through the Cocoa pasteboard and also adding drag-and-drop support. Final sections look at creating new controls for use with the Interface Builder palette, and, briefly, how to use Java with Cocoa (an option that the author doesn't necessarily recommend). Throughout this text, the author provides more advanced, challenging problems at the end of each chapter for the more curious reader. This approach helps that beginners will not get lost in the details of Cocoa development, but will give the more advanced reader something more to do.While there a comparably fewer books on Mac OS X compared to other platforms, readers are lucky to have this one available. Anyone who wants to get onboard with Cocoa development will be well served by this title. It's a fine tutorial that earns high marks for its approachable, clear examples and an excellent presentation by an author who knows his stuff and, better still, knows how to teach it to others. --Richard Dragan --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Product Description - P style=MARGIN: 0px The best-selling introduction to Cocoa, once again updated to cover the latest Mac programming technologies, and still enthusiastically recommended by experienced Mac OS X developers. P style=MARGIN: 0px P style=MARGIN: 0px P style=MARGIN: 0px Aaron s book is the gold standard for Mac OS X programming books beautifully written, and thoughtfully sculpted. The best book on Leopard development. P style=MARGIN: 0px Scott Stevenson, www.theocacao.com P style=MARGIN: 0px P style=MARGIN: 0px This is the first book I d recommend for anyone wanting to learn Cocoa from scratch. Aaron s one of the few (perhaps only) full-time professional Cocoa instructors, and his teaching experience shows in the book. P style=MARGIN: 0px Tim Burks, software developer and creator of the Nu programming language, www.programming.nu P style=MARGIN: 0px P style=MARGIN: 0px If you re a UNIX or Windows developer who picked up a Mac OS X machine recently in hopes of developing new apps or porting your apps to Mac users, this book should be strongly considered as one of your essential reference and training tomes. P style=MARGIN: 0px Kevin H. Spencer, Apple Certified Technical Coordinator P style=MARGIN: 0px
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Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X

Author

Hillegass, Aaron

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Paperback

Publisher:

Addison Wesley

Published:

15 May 2008

Pages:

464

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Computer Programming

ISBN-13:

9780321503619

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