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Beginning Mac Programming: Develop with Objective-C and Cocoa (Pragmatic Programmers) |  | Author: Tim Isted
Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 352
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.7 x 0.9
ISBN: 1934356514
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.268
EAN: 9781934356517
ASIN: 1934356514
Publication Date: March 9, 2010
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Product Description
Beginning Mac Programming takes you through concrete, working examples, giving you the core concepts and principles of development in context so you will be ready to build the applications you've been imagining. It introduces you to Objective-C and the Cocoa framework in clear, easy-to-understand lessons, and demonstrates how you can use them together to write for the Mac, as well as the iPhone and iPod. You'll explore crucial developer tools like Xcode and Interface Builder, and learn the principles of object-oriented programming, and how memory, data, and storage work to help you build your software. If you've ever wanted to develop software for the Mac, this book is for you.
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Very well written book! August 20, 2010
David (Mableton, GA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have used many programming-type do-it-yourself books before. Some have been better than others, but this book is the best I have seen so far. It is clear and concise and makes as few assumptions as possible when explaining different topics. Object-Oriented Programming was not easy for me to pick up and this book has done what others books have not; this is, successfully teach me. I have never programmed in Mac before and I am on chapter 7 and doing just fine. You actually do work and that makes a big difference.
Each topic is backed up with examples that make sense and the author has a great bed-side manner - which is important; you never feel overwhelmed or too dumb. He explains something then guides you through a relevant example, step-by-step. I have not noticed ANY mistakes in the examples at all. I have gone over topics in this book and the light has gone on when other books have left me in the dark.
I have a modest programming background so I wasn't starting completely from scratch - but this book has me excited about creating my own Mac Applications soon.
 Good Book August 16, 2010
George Matty (Flanders, NJ)
The book is good. Only issue I have is that if you had an issue with a section (like chapter 7), then the examples in chapter 8 go to improve on the work already done in chapter 7. Not too much of an issue, the code is available on the website for the book. I just came back to it and built on (sometimes you just need a break). Overall content is good and gets you working on Mac programming right away. You concentrate on the important aspects of Mac programming. Good book to come back to when working with Mac programming.
Small, incremental, successful learning July 3, 2010
S. M. gantner (Louisville, KY)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the third book in my attempt to learn to program with objective-c and on the mac. The first two, while covered lots of details, left me feeling like I had to follow the tutorials or I was hopelessly lost. I am getting excited working with this book since I finally feel like I'm getting a good understanding of how to program on the Mac.
It could be that working through those other Obj-C books allowed me to understand this book with greater ease but there is one thing this author does that I haven't seen much of. He carefully introduces new concepts and gently repeats them (without forcing you to flip back to page whatever). He is careful not to breeze through concepts assuming I know them. I would guess that the first few times he mentions a new concept while working on a project he explains what that concepts does and briefly how it works. Very helpful because this stuff is very abstract and can get confusing quickly. Later on he might reduce what was 4 steps in the first chapter to a single step but so far that hasn't hung me up anywhere. Now that I think about it, I don't think I've had to jump back to previous pages at all. At least very little.
Additionally, I am halfway through the book and he has been smart about building projects. There are two projects so far and he is slowly building up the complexity rather than wasting my time doing the exact same thing, like setting up a project. It makes for a very natural feeling of progression in both introduction of ideas and feeling of success. Small, incremental, successful learning is really important and the author does an excellent job of cultivating that in this book.
I am very pleased with this text and author and I intend to buy more book written by Mr. Isted.
skips around a bit June 26, 2010
acerlover
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
my copy arrived today, and i am pleased with the content. although this is not really a reference for later, the tutorials are explained well -- with the exception of the constant skipping around (see previous chapter, don't worry about this we'll cover it 3 chapters from now).
i would place this high on the list of books for noobs to get going with...but i think the apress Obj-C for absolute beginners (coming in august 2010) may be better.
that said, i was pleased with the book but the missing star is for the jumping.
The definitive book to start programming on Mac June 24, 2010
Mark Twain
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book will teach you both programming and Apple's Cocoa framework. Everything is done in Xcode, which is Apple's free IDE. There's even a brief chapter on iPhone development! Not only that, but the last chapter is the author discussing where you can go next in your endeavors as a Mac programmer, from Core Animation to Core Data. Don't go and buy Yet Another Programming Book with dozens of exercises and forty chapters; get this book, finish it in half a month, and get to developing!
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