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Cocoa Programming is a comprehensive work that starts as a fast-paced introduction to the OS architecture and the Cocoa language for programmers new to the environment. The more advanced sections of the book will show the reader how to create Cocoa applications using Objective-C, to modify the views, integrate multimedia, and access networks. The final sections explain how to extend system applications and development tools in order to create your own frameworks.
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This book is great for people who want to develop serious Mac OS X applications.
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5
this book is amazing, amazing how many mistakes and spelling errors it has. the publisher should ashamed. very sloppy work.
Amazon User Rating: 2 / 5
Whoever gave this book two stars because of bad spelling is completely out of line. This is a computer book and should be judged as a computer book. Yes, the spelling is bad, but so what! The book delivers a wealth of useful information. Anyone who grades a compoter bok more on speling and grammer thEn on technical merit has some major personal issues. Cocoa Programming IS the best Cocoa book to date.
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5
I now have several books on Cocoa Programming, and I must say this one is the thickest. It however seems to have the least amount of useful information or maybe it’s just how it’s organized. But, I keep trying to go to this book to get answers and it just never seems to have the information that I am looking for. I would recommend Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X by Aaron Hillegass (Author) or Learning Cocoa with Objective-C by James Duncan Davidson as being far and away better references. My feeling is that all of the books that I have found to date suffer from requiring a rather substantial working knowledge of both C and object oriented programming. This book seems to be even worse about this than the two I recommended.
To give you an idea of who I am (and whether my opinion is valid for your situation). I am a self taught programmer with fairly experience in high level structured programming but very little previous experience in C or OOP. I have managed to figure out how to begin Mac OS X programming, but it has been a slog. I have been using this and other Cocoa book for eight months now.
Amazon User Rating: 3 / 5
This is a big book, so I was at first leery about whether I would be able to get through it without becoming depressed or lost. I did get through it, I didn’t get lost, and I felt in capable hands all the way through. Furthermore, it was worth every minute of time I put into reading it.
Although there are three authors of this book, listed alphabetically on the front cover, it reads as if written by a single author. It becomes readily apparent that the authors know Cocoa as well as the best programmers know it. But even more important to me was that they craft every single sentence with care for the context they’re building, and they don’t violate our faith with out of context material. Time and time again I was silently appreciating their skill and care for quality writing.
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5