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Dave Mark (Author)
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Publication Date: 8 Dec 2008 | ISBN-10: 1430218096 | ISBN-13: 978-1430218098 | Edition: 1

Considered a classic by an entire generation of Mac programmers, this popular guide has been updated for Mac OS X. Don’t know anything about programming? No problem! Acclaimed author Dave Mark starts out with the basics and takes you through a complete course in programming C using Apple’s free Xcode tools. This book is perfect for beginners learning to program. It includes Mac OS X examples!

  • Provides best practices for programming newbies
  • Written by the expert on C–programming for the Mac
  • Presents all the basics with a pragmatic, Mac OS X-flavored approach

What you’ll learn

  • Master C programming, the gateway to programming your Mac or iPhone
  • Write applications for the Mac OS X interface, the cleanest user interface around
  • Understand variables and how to design your own data structures
  • Work with the file system
  • Connect to data sources and the Internet

Who this book is for

For anyone wanting to learn to program in Mac OS X, including developers new to the Mac, developers new to C, or students entirely new to programming. For anyone who wants to learn how to program their iPhone, this is also the core language primer.

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  • Paperback: 354 pages
  • Publisher: APRESS; 1 edition (8 Dec 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430218096
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430218098
  • Product Dimensions: 19.1 x 1.9 x 23.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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2.0 out of 5 stars Book crippled by mistakes - there are better C books out there 21 Aug 2009
By Luca Vicini
Format:Paperback
The target audience for this book is people without any previous knowledge of programming.
The first few chapter are intended to help users to install Xcode and the Mac programming tools. After this there is no other Mac specific information and you could learn the language with any other C book for beginners.

The book is full of typos and conceptual mistakes, especially when describing key concepts of the language. Just a look at the errata page on the Apress website will give you an idea of the extent of the disaster. To make things worse the errata page is organised in chronological order of the error submissions and not in page order as you would normally expect.

My recommendation is to go through the Xcode tutorial on the Apple website and then use another C beginner book as guide.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Dave Mark's Writing Style Makes This A Wonderful Book 14 Jan 2009
By Mr. S. Wolf
Format:Paperback
I doubt that many people would consider reading a book about learning C to be fun but Dave mark has a wonderful writing style which makes this book very readable and, dare I say it, absorbing, all of which helps the information go in more easily.

I read the book with some C knowledge but it filled in a lot of gaps for me (my purpose for reading it so it gets a big tick for that) and it is riddled with useful notes which clarify the subjects and add useful bits of extra knowledge. I'm sure that someone totally new to C will also find the book easy to follow and very clear so it definitely comes highly recommended from me.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Hard Going! 11 July 2012
By dr_artha
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
All the above reviewers must be smarter than me because this book is hard going!

First off, its out of date. It describes Xcode 3, and the current version is Xcode 4.

Secondly, if you're complete beginner, like me, the author throws a barrage of unnecessary technical jargon at you almost constantly. This is fine if each term is given meaning soon after it is used initially, but alas, this is seldom the case here. Cue head scratching, expletives and tea breaks! He seems to find it neccesary to over complicate matters most of the time by introducing several key points at once. I find its much easier to digest the point, then move onto the next rather than get a ton of points thrown at you at once and you're left clutching to the first things you can take in. It all therefore needs reading several times to get it all, and this makes reading rather tedious.

Who ever said this book is funny must be really dull! I've seen better jokes in the Old Testament. That book of genesis is a hoot!

It does however tell you what you need so it gets two stars from me, but if I could offer those two stars to the author in the form of paragraphs of unnecessary and often complex jargon, I would.
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