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| Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, Second edition | 
 enlarge | Manufacturer: Addison Wesley
Category: EBooks
List Price: $49.99
Buy New: $28.34
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Avg. Customer Rating:  48 reviews
Sales Rank: 908
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 480
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.268
ASIN: B000OZ0N94
Publication Date: March 16, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
 Well done step by step tutorial December 8, 2004
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
This book falls somewhere inbetween Beginner and Intermediate. It's a beginners book in that it assumes no background in Cocoa or Objective-C. It's kind of intermediate in that having at least programming experience in some language will be of great help.
The book does not start with a lot of philosophy, instead it goes through a step-by-step process to wrtie the first application. This is done with some good explanations and a lot of screen shots.
The author is a teacher of Cocoa, and he wrote this book to use in his classes. After writing the firt edition he used it for a couple of years, enough to understand where the problems might lie. Now he's done a second edition based on what he learned in teaching the first book, and the changes that Apple has made in the software.
This book is tutorial, not a reference book. It leads you through the process step by step. Then there is a fairly extensive index so that you can look up points later. Highly Recommended.
Perfect February 28, 2005
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
This was the book I needed, but never knew about. It took a trip all the way to WWDC to find out how great this author is. If you're starting to get serious about Cocoa programming and have a background in computer science or programming, get this book. Aaron knows his stuff and you will get there with his help. I tried a few O'Reilly guides on Cocoa and Objective C, they were useful, but this book helped me get through some issues and figure out this beautiful language. Things made sense, there were a few sections in the book I re-read over and over at 3am until it stuck in my head, but it worked.
I am not disappointed and the book had a lot of hype to live up to. Sorry for not being more specific, but I think you can download a chapter for free online and read more for yourself to make sure this style will work for you.
EXACTLY What you need to get started. June 27, 2006
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I just got my first Mac Mini (been a PC programmer for years and years).
I installed XCode (free!)
And got this book...
It is perfect. It gives you the facts and walks you through great examples. Very concise and to the point without any mac is better than pc/micrososft etc.
Simply a great book. Do not hesitate in picking this one up.
2nd edition is even better than 1st! May 11, 2004
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Just because one is an expert at a given subject does not mean they make the best person to teach it. Aaron Hillegass is in a group of those few rare individuals who knows the subject and can help the reader to better understand it. His book is a well written and thought out tutorial that has been tested and refined by actual teaching conditions. If you haven't had the pleasure of attending Big Nerd Ranch then this is the next best thing. Don't think about it...just buy the book!
 Step by step introduction to OS X development in Cocoa October 13, 2004
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is a well written overview of start-to-finish application development in Cocoa. It's primarily focused on use of the interface builder and how that maps to the back-end Objective-C objects. The text is light and easy to read, and screenshots are used effectively. There are also some diagrams to demonstrate the relationships between objects at runtime.
I appreciated the walkthrough, but I would have preferred a reference section that provided an overview of the Cocoa APIs. That would make it valuable after you have gone through the walkthrough.
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