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Cocoa Programming: A Quick-Start Guide for Developers shows you how to get productive with Cocoa-fast! We won't walk you through every class and method in the API (but we will show you where to find that information). Instead, we'll jump right in and start building a web browser using Cocoa. In just a few minutes you'll have something that works. A couple of minutes more, and you'll have code in your custom controller, listening for notifications and call-backs. Soon you'll have the functionality you'd expect in a full browser. And that's just the first few chapters...
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Daniel is the editor for the new series of Mac Developer titles for the Pragmatic Programmers. He writes feature articles for Apple's ADC web site and is a regular contributor to Mac Devcenter. He has presented at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference, MacWorld, MacHack and other Mac developer conferences. Daniel has produced podcasts for Apple featuring the work of developers and scientists working on the platform. He has coauthored books on Apple's Bonjour technology as well as on Java Programming and using Extreme Programming in Software Engineering classes.
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Format:Paperback
If you are after a book that teaches you how to program in objective-C then this isn't the book for you; it expects that you already know C or objective-C and want to learn how to program in a Cocoa environment (OS-X/iOS)
The reason the book only got 4-stars is because it has yet to be updated for X-Code 4. Though this does not kill the book, it does mean that you will need to get comfortable with X-code 4 and translate between the two versions; it's not really difficult but, initially, can be a bit confusing.
Given the above, the book is excellent; it gradually builds up from the first project, a web-browser, which doesn't use a single line of code to covers all of the key aspects of the Cocoa environment. The authors style is easy to ready and he explains everything in a direct and clear way - unusual with most computer books. As the chapter pass by, the author slowly 'lets go' of your hand and you're expected to do the basic tasks yourself - this is well timed and never left me trying to work out what I needed to do.
While most of the book focuses on OS-X, iOS is not left alone and the memory management differences are covered. One of the OS-X projects is converted to iOS as a demonstration of the Cocoa programming environment
Overall, I highly recommend the book but would love to see it updated to cover the advances in X-code 4 - then it would get five stars!
The reason the book only got 4-stars is because it has yet to be updated for X-Code 4. Though this does not kill the book, it does mean that you will need to get comfortable with X-code 4 and translate between the two versions; it's not really difficult but, initially, can be a bit confusing.
Given the above, the book is excellent; it gradually builds up from the first project, a web-browser, which doesn't use a single line of code to covers all of the key aspects of the Cocoa environment. The authors style is easy to ready and he explains everything in a direct and clear way - unusual with most computer books. As the chapter pass by, the author slowly 'lets go' of your hand and you're expected to do the basic tasks yourself - this is well timed and never left me trying to work out what I needed to do.
While most of the book focuses on OS-X, iOS is not left alone and the memory management differences are covered. One of the OS-X projects is converted to iOS as a demonstration of the Cocoa programming environment
Overall, I highly recommend the book but would love to see it updated to cover the advances in X-code 4 - then it would get five stars!
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Great Starter Book for Cocoa
28 April 2010
Format:Paperback
In my opinion this is a great book for beginners in Cocoa. The author conceptually explains the framework for Cocoa Programming (that is to me more useful then just a programming recipe book). Yes, there are a lot of recipe like books out there for iPhone and Mac programming, but if you really want to learn how things work, this book actually will help fill in the details for you. For example this book really explains 'delegates' and 'first responder' concepts in more plain language to me then other sources I used . Also, in the recent update to the book, the author covers new and important concepts with 'blocks' and 'grand central dispatch' which are new to snow leopard. The book is a big time saver and the price was very affordable (the last I checked) .
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Not a quick start at all
16 Feb 2011
Format:Paperback
I had hoped that this book would be a good guide for a programmer already familiar with C. Indeed this is exactly what this book proposes to be on page 18. Although the content of the book is fine, its pace is snail like. Its slow pace gets in the way of learning as one cannot make connections between ideas presented because they are too far apart in the text. One gets the impression that this might have been done deliberately to pad out the book.
I have begun reading Scott Stevenson's "Cocoa and Objective-C Up and Running" and I have found that this book is far better suited to my needs.
I have begun reading Scott Stevenson's "Cocoa and Objective-C Up and Running" and I have found that this book is far better suited to my needs.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
So far, So good.
21 Jun 2010
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
As a web developer, I was a little worried about picking up a compiled language to add to my toolbelt, since the paradigm is so much different from the normal scripting and object oriented programming I'm used to, but so far "Cocoa Programming: A quick start guide for developers" has been an excellent introduction. I am a big fan of PragProg books in general and this book is no exception. Written in a clear and conversation tone, this book is helping me get up to speed with the Cocoa framework from the very practical point-of-view of the XCode/InterfaceBuilder workflow and introducing Objective-C concepts in a way that is illuminating and not intimidating.
Its not a deep resource manual, there are other books that do that, but if you're looking to see what is like to build OS X applications, this is a great first step.
Its not a deep resource manual, there are other books that do that, but if you're looking to see what is like to build OS X applications, this is a great first step.
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