AARON HILLEGASS COCOA PROGRAMMING FOR MAC OS X FREE DOWNLOAD

It's the best book for a beginning Cocoa programmer. This edition adds a new chapter on concurrency and expands coverage of Core Animation. Common terms and phrases action alloc AppController AppController. Aaron and Adam illustrate their explanations with exemplary code, written in the idioms of the Cocoa community, to show you how Mac programs should be written. Snow Leopard has different tricks to get your applications to understand Applescript. Great book, but skips through some of the explainations of how individual lines of code are structured and why. Jul 25, Mark rated it it was amazing.

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Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X

The author encourages you to copy-paste the code a lot or retype it verbatim. Common terms and phrases action alloc AppController AppController. Chapter 14 Using Notifications. Difficult to get through; wasn't a good match to my need at the time iPhone OS programming. Books by Aaron Hillegass.

Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X - Aaron Hillegass - Google Books

I'd also recommend completing the challenges in the book. Anyone who wants to develop OSX apps in Cocoa should read this.

Jul 25, Mark rated it it was amazing. Chapter 20 Drawing Text with Attributes.

Addison-Wesley Professional- Computers - pages. Apples reference docs don't give simple examples of how each call works and I find it confusing as I don't easily see how a call should be used.

Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X - Aaron Hillegass, Adam Preble - Google Books

Aaron Hillegass is an excellent tech author who can explain concepts in such a way that it's easy to follow along, while keeping you engaged. This is how technical books should be written. This book is an excellent follow-up to the Big Nerd Ranch guide to Objective C, if you are just starting out as a Mac programmer.

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It may well take me years to finish this book Jun 28, Michael rated it really liked it. It assumed some competence on Mac OS usage and culture. My library Help Advanced Book Search. It can be picked up by anyone with just a little programming experience.

Chapter 19 Keyboard Events.

The go-to book for Cocoa and Objective C. I would also recommend this book to iPhone developers new to Cocoa. Chapter 13 User Defaults. Considered by many as the "Cocoa Bible", it leads the reader into the world of Cocoa, Objective-C, and Xcode at a steady, manageable pace. It does an excellent job of filling in the gaps that Apple omits in their iPhone guides and tutorials. To view it, click here.

Mar 07, Alpha rated it really liked it Shelves: Contents What Is It?

The book is organized around example programs, not programming concepts, so it's pretty much impossible to go back and skim to find a particular bit of code or concept. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Hillegass isn't thorough enough. Chapter 38 The End.

User Review - Flag as inappropriate brilliant book i now know how to programme chocolate bars on my mac! I would not recommend this book to a beginner or non-programmer.