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Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X For Dummies

Posted by Mila Coachman on Wednesday, 5 May 2010
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This was a fantastic insight into programming on my Mac! I've been wanting to get a start in the programming scene for a while now and this book has helped me so much. It is a 'dummies' guide as it hasn't taught me everything, but I would strongly suggest this to anyone wishing to start programming on the mac (new programmers). Now something I would like to say to the authors: Why is it so expensive? It is only a couple dollars less than the physical book! It has cost you nothing to ship or reproduce it but still the high price. For the quality of this book, for the amount of pages, for the actual knowledge granted the reader, why not half the price? The lower the price the higher the sales. This is my personal opinion, I am on a campaign to help eBook lovers everywhere, we have a device to read it on, why are we still paying for paper?

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  • ISBN13: 9780470432891
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Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X For Dummies Overviews

Cocoa programming is not only the favored development environment for Mac OS X, it’s also a primary tool for creating iPhone and iPod Touch software. That makes this a great time to learn Cocoa, and Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X For Dummies is the ideal place to start!

This book gives you a solid foundation in Cocoa and the unusual syntax of Objective-C. You’ll learn what’s new in Cocoa frameworks and create an application step by step. For example, you can:

  • See how Xcode underlies your applications as the main component of Apple’s IDE
  • Examine the basics of the Objective-C language, the elements of a Cocoa interface, and object-oriented programming
  • Use Xcode and Interface Builder
  • Spruce up your apps with audio, video, Internet features, stylized text, and more
  • Create applications with the stunning graphics for which Macs are famous
  • See how to build apps with multiple documents and even executables that aren’t traditional Mac apps
  • Use all the exciting new Cocoa features
  • Work with Cocoa numbers, arrays, Booleans, and dates
  • Build document-based applications
  • Simplify with key-value coding

The better you understand Cocoa programming, the better the applications you can create for Mac OS X, iPhone, and iPod Touch. Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X For Dummies makes it easy and fun!

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Outdated and wrong in spots - William Castello - Rio Rancho, NM United States
Although the book is well written and well developed, time marches on and left this one behind. Any current version of XCode will leave the reader very annoyed as the examples do not work at all. Not even close to being completable. It's a shame, because the actual description of some XCode concepts is very well done, and at other times, they miss entire areas?

Get a more updated book, this one has become a paperweight. (Written in April 2010, for reference sake)


Good. But Out of Date - Wait for a New Edition! - Nina P - San Francisco, CA USA
I agree with one of the reviewers who said that the book was 'good' but certain areas needed more explanation.

Unfortunately, worse than that, is that the book is now out of date. Otherwise I would have given it 4 stars instead of the 1 star.

I bought this book when XCode was at version 3.0 but had too many other things to work on. So it sat on my desk for 4 months before I was able to get on to reading it. Unfortunately, since that time, XCode and Interface Builder (the associated application used for designing UI for both Cocoa & iPhone apps) were updated. For the most part, many things are still relevant. But, major differences in how you make connections from UI elements in Interface Builder to your code have changed in version 3.2.1. Not to mention syntactical changes in Cocoa 2.0.

- Readers unfamiliar with Xcode (which I assume this book is aimed at) will be lost when they see pictures and descriptions that refer to panels that no longer exist.

- Workflow will be utterly confusing.

- Current Cocoa 2.0 syntax will be missed.

It's a shame that technical books become out of date so quickly. But I wish publishers and booksellers would do a better job informing people when it's happened.

For information on the changes in xcode, follow these links for release notes:
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