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You this will be no surprise once you read the remainder of this review, but I'm going to just say it up front: this book is great. Being a seasoned Xcode user, I can tell you that having this book back when I was first switching over to Xcode would have hugely sped the transition.

The 'Programmer to Programmer' model that Wrox is known for is a an excellent style of reference. There are many benefits of targeting an existing programmer. When writing to an existing programmer there are terms and phrases that the writer can use that programmers will immediately understand, while a newcomer might not. These words and phrases allow the author to communicate to the reader in a rapid, concise and clear way.

The author introduces Xcode by devoting a series of chapters to different sections of the Xcode experience. Each chapter does an excellent job of introducing those little features that you might otherwise miss for a year, and then wonder how you got anything done without it. The chapters are filled with examples and pictures which I believe even a non programmer using the book as their first introduction could follow. I do believe though that a programming book would be a better first book and this book a second. The reason is that even though this book does a great job with simple explanations there are references made to terms which a new programmer wouldn't understand and also a new programmer wouldn't be able to relate to the features without a context. The new programmer says, "That's a great feature, but why and where do I use it?" The existing programmer coming to Xcode says, "Thats a great feature! Kind of like the ---- feature in my old ------ IDE but much more useful for ------."

The author even rounds off the survey of Xcode by addressing the powerful debugging and profiling tools that are included in the Xcode package. One section that I was extremely pleased to find was a section on remote debugging. Remote debugging is a method where one computer is used to run an application and another computer is used to monitor and debug. Remote debugging is a useful feature in general, but I find it indispensable when working on games or other full screen applications that take control of the entire screen. I was pleased to find this section included since I had a difficult time getting it to work the first time I tried to set it up. Again, having this excellent book at my side would have saved me enough time to justify purchasing the book.

I was also pleased with the author's coverage of Shark -?the performance profiling app included in Xcode. I have had wonderful results with using Shark to determine areas of my code that are malfunctioning or just plain poorly written with respect to time efficiency. The book does a wonderful job of explaining the function of usage of all the menu's windows in the application. Another feature that I thought was very useful that fits will with the "Programmer to Programmer" method is the "How it Works" sections that give a good description of why you are doing something, what Xcode is really doing as a result and how it does it.

I think that this book is incredible. I only have one recommendation to someone who's considering purchasing it. Buy it, but also purchase a book that covers the cutting edge Apple made technologies, like Carbon, Cocoa, Foundation, Core Foundation, Core Image, Core Data, Quartz, ect. The reason for this recommendation is that Xcode is built for and integrates well with these technologies and I believe that it would be beneficial to have a book to give an in depth introduction to these technologies, while this book gives an in-depth introduction to the IDE used to develop them. I have not had a chance to examine the book, but it's quite possible that Michael Trent and Drew McCormack's "Mac OS X Programming" also by Wrox is that perfect companion book.

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Xcode is a powerful suite of free development tools from Apple Computer that will allow you to create Macintosh applications, plug-ins, web components, applets, and more using languages such as C, C++, Objective-C, Java, and AppleScript.

What you will learn from this book:

• Control window layout to match your development style.
• Master source file organization.
• How to access a source control management system, right in the Xcode interface.
• How to quickly navigate to files, symbols, bookmarks, declarations, and definitions within your project; find reference documents and instantly access API documentation.
• Harness Xcode’s smart editing features, such as auto-indent, code completion, and text macros.
• Discover how easy it is to browse class information and create dynamic class diagrams.
• Get started using Xcode’s Interface Builder and Data Modeling design tools.
• Learn to customize target build phases, add your own compilers, write your own build processes, and integrate Xcode with other build tools like Ant and gnumake.
• How to create and integrate unit tests into your projects.
• Harness the full power of the debugger with smart breakpoints and custom data formatters. Learn how to change variables, and even fix bugs, while your program is still running.
• Start using Xcode’s suite of performance analysis tools to find problems and accelerate your code.
• Customize scores of hidden, and often undocumented, Xcode features. Learn how to remap keyboard commands, create your own project and file templates, and even add your own commands to the Xcode menus.

Instead of "cookbook" projects specific to a particular language, developer James Bucanek details each Xcode feature with step-by-step instructions that can be applied directly to your projects. Example projects that demonstrate a single concept make it easy to explore each feature.

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Book comparison - John Love - Marquette, Michigan USA
I'm looking for a comparision between this book, "Beginning Xcode" (which I already have) and Fritz Anderson's "Xcode 3 Unleashed" (which I don't have).

Maybe it's just me, but I have found "Beginning Xcode" to be difficult to follow and I am searching for another Xcode book that's equal in depth, but significantly easier to follow.

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For example, my challenge today is I have an external framework which is incorporated under "Linked Frameworks" of my main app Project.

Currently, if I re-build this external framework, I then have to re-build my main app.

What I wish to do is every time I re-build my main app, I want the external framework to be re-built automatically .. in short, 1 step, rather than 2.

I have been told that my answer is in "Unleashed"; however, I just can't find it in "Beginning".
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My current challenge notwithstanding, I do see an advantage in that "Unleashed" is based on Xcode 3, versus "Beginning" dating back to Xcode 2 (2006). I also see raves for both books .. but I still welcome any additions *only* because I already have "Beginning" and "Unleashed" may not have sufficient added merit to warrant the $$$.

Thanks very, very much in advance.

IT SUCKS BIG TIME -- DO NOT BUY!!! - J. Tran - Colorado
This is simply the worst of all xcode books. it should be called xcode document! instead of Beginning... It has no sample or practice page at all. NONE! ZILT! ZERO! if you want to learn xcode from examples this is NOT for you but if you just wanted to read what xcode means! then by all mean waste your money on it. I wish I could call the author and ask him for a full refund now! After reading the above 2 reviews, I decided to buy. Well I don't know what they were smoking when wrote the review. I would give it a negative 2 stars if I could. STOP! DO NOT BUY!

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As a former programmer who hadn't done any significant programming in several years -- and that largely in COBOL, to boot -- when I decided to start looking into creating apps for the iPhone/iPod, this was the first book I bought. That turned out to be a mostly-good, slightly-bad decision.

First, the bad:
The "bad" in this case has not so much to do with the book as with the way I used it. This book was my first-ever introduction to Objective-C, Xcode, Interface Builder, and iPhone programming in general. My only exposure to that entire world was in using an iPod Touch my wife got me for my birthday. You can use this book that way, but if, like me, you are a complete novice in the Apple world, you might want to consider taking advantage of some of the free education you can find on the web before you dive into "iPhone for Programmers." At least get a sense of how the SDK components fit together and what is meant by outlets, connections, and so on. It might not be a bad idea to order the book from Amazon and start learning from the web while you're waiting for it to arrive.

Now, the good:
Most programming books illustrate the concepts with which they are concerned by using trivial, totally useless examples and out-of-context code snippets. That may work sometimes with very basic stuff, but it doesn't do a lot for trying to put everything into context. This book is not like that.
Here you get actual usable -- and useful -- apps, along with step-by-step instructions as to how to put them together and get them to run. You get to see how to add components in Interface Builder and how to add them programmatically. You get explanations of developer conventions. You get downloadable code you can check against the code you type in when you have problems. In short, you get code with a point.

Organization of the book is fairly straightforward. It begins with explanations of how to register as a developer and acquire the SDK. You then get a very handy walkthrough of how the App Store and submissions to it work. Then you switch over to coding. That too is presented in a logical progression; you start with fairly simple but complete apps and work your way up to more complex ones. The authors do a decent job of tying the "what" of how you code with the "why" of how it all fits together.

If you thrive on examples as opposed to simply exposition, this is the book for you.

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The professional programmer’s DEITEL^® guide to iPhone app development using iPhone SDK 3.x, Xcode^®, Objective-C^® and Cocoa^®

More than 1.5 billion iPhone apps were downloaded from Apple’s App Store in just one year! This book gives you everything you’ll need to start developing great iPhone apps quickly and–once you’ve joined Apple’s fee-based iPhone Developer Program–to get them up and running on the App Store. The book uses an app-driven approach–each new technology is discussed in the context of 14 fully tested iPhone apps (7700 lines of code), complete with syntax shading, code walkthroughs and sample outputs. Apps you’ll develop include:

• Welcome
• Spot-On Game
• Route Tracker
• Tip Calculator
• Cannon Game
• Slideshow
• Favorite Twitter^® Searches
• Painter
• Voice Recorder
• Flag Quiz Game
• Address Book
• Twitter^® Discount Airfares

By Chapter 3 you’ll be building apps using Xcode^®, Cocoa^® and Interface Builder. You’ll learn object-oriented programming in Objective-C^® and build apps using the latest iPhone 3.x technologies including the Game Kit, iPod library access and more.

iPhone for Programmers include practical, example-rich coverage of:

• iPhone SDK 3.x, XCode^®, Interface Builder

• Object-Oriented Programming in Objective-C^® and Cocoa^®

• Collections, GUI, Event Handling

• Controllers, Application Templates

• UIView, Multi-Touch™

• Core Audio, Core Animation, NSTimer

• Tables, UINavigationController

• Map Kit, Core Location, GPS, Compass

• Photos, iPod Library Access

• Serialization

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Complete examples, no explanations - Gary Bisaga - Leesburg, VA USA
I am not sure what I am missing that all these other reviewers are getting, but I found this book extremely frustrating. Though I looked at the book in the bookstore and was turned off by it, on the strength of the reviewers I went and bought it anyway. I sorely regret doing so. By the way, I am not a newbie programmer: I've been a strong developer for 30 years, most recently writing J2EE enterprise applications since 1996.

On the plus side, there are (as other reviewers have said) complete examples of applications, all of which you can download from the book publisher's web site. You can - after spending hours poring through the code examples - find many of the details of how to hook up the pieces into real applications.

However, for me, this advantage was completely wiped out by providing very little explanation of what is going on. Beyond the first chapter or two, explanation of what's going on in the Interface Builder is non-existent. When the application (which there was also no explanation for) doesn't work, you're left trying to figure out what you didn't hook up in the Interface Builder (which wasn't explained). Also, there is no categorized explanation of what you're dealing with - just code examples. If an interface method is not in a particular code example, you have no idea that the method exists. Just page after page of code, with textual explanations that are very little better than the code comments themselves. I could never imagine using this book beyond the initial learning curve - there's nothing you could call a "reference." Finally, the page after page of method listings are not in any way connected together: you have to keep flipping back and forth to figure out what class a given method belongs to. And at least one sample app (the Address Book) does not build for me.

I think the Interface Builder problems point out the overall weakness of this book. Code examples might be ok for a purely code-based system, but developing iPhone apps is not - at least, the way it's presented in the book - a code-driven approach: it all starts in the Interface Builder. More coverage of that tool might have pulled the pieces together.

All in all, good context of its examples, but did not at all work for me to learn iPhone programming. I've been much more impressed with iPhone App Development: The Missing Manual.

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A solid guide that responds to the active interest in Apple's Xcode tools

Apple's Xcode tools are a collection of applications and frameworks that are used to develop, test, and optimize applications primarily written for Mac OS X or the iPhone. The steady increase in sales of Apple computers has triggered a strong interest in gaining a thorough understanding of Xcode and its tools and what they have to offer. This book provides you with an inside look at the array of Xcode tools from top to bottom.

You'll go beyond the basics and dive into such in-depth topics as installing the latest version of Xcode tools, customizing the look and behavior of Xcode, creating and managing projects, using the built-in class browser to model complex applications and structures, and more.

• Offers you a solid foundation for getting the most out of Apple's Xcode tools, a collection of applications and frameworks used to develop, test, and optimize applications written for Mac OS X or the iPhone
• Includes clear, comprehensive lessons for installing the latest version of Xcode tools, customizing the look of Xcode, creating and managing projects, testing your interfaces, and building and debugging your projects
• Explains analyzing performance, optimizing your application, working with shared sources, creating your own custom file templates, and customizing the interface builder

With this book, you'll be able to take full advantage of the range of tools included with Xcode.

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

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Cocoa Design Patterns Overviews

“Next time some kid shows up at my door asking for a code review, this is the book that I am going to throw at him.”

 

–Aaron Hillegass, founder of Big Nerd Ranch, Inc., and author of Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X

 

Unlocking the Secrets of Cocoa and Its Object-Oriented Frameworks

 

Mac and iPhone developers are often overwhelmed by the breadth and sophistication of the Cocoa frameworks. Although Cocoa is indeed huge, once you understand the object-oriented patterns it uses, you’ll find it remarkably elegant, consistent, and simple.

 

Cocoa Design Patterns begins with the mother of all patterns: the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern, which is central to all Mac and iPhone development. Encouraged, and in some cases enforced by Apple’s tools, it’s important to have a firm grasp of MVC right from the start.

 

The book’s midsection is a catalog of the essential design patterns you’ll encounter in Cocoa, including

• Fundamental patterns, such as enumerators, accessors, and two-stage creation
• Patterns that empower, such as singleton, delegates, and the responder chain
• Patterns that hide complexity, including bundles, class clusters, proxies and forwarding, and controllers

And that’s not all of them! Cocoa Design Patterns painstakingly isolates 28 design patterns, accompanied with real-world examples and sample code you can apply to your applications today. The book wraps up with coverage of Core Data models, AppKit views, and a chapter on Bindings and Controllers.

 

Cocoa Design Patterns clearly defines the problems each pattern solves with a foundation in Objective-C and the Cocoa frameworks and can be used by any Mac or iPhone developer.

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The third edition of the A+ Certification Study Guide offers 100% coverage of all exam objectives and more than 220 challenging practice questions. On the CD, you'll get CertTrainer interactive tutorials and lab simulations, new CertCam animations which provide expert visual instruction, and new ExamSim adaptive practice exam software.

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I needed a clear description of how to get xcode working with SVN. The chapter on SVN stepped me through it. Not every instruction was precisely correct, but it was close enough for me to get it working pretty easily.

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Xcode 3 Unleashed Overviews

Apple’s new Xcode 3 is the most powerful Mac development suite ever created. In Xcode 3 Unleashed, renowned Mac developer Fritz Anderson has written the definitive guide to making the most of Xcode 3 to build any Macintosh or iPhone application.

 

Anderson leads you through a simple project that covers the entire Xcode 3.x development lifecycle. You’ll walk through building and debugging command-line tools, creating Mac OS X user interfaces, modeling data, localizing languages, compiling applications, and much more. Along the way, he introduces each of Apple’s remarkable development tools from the latest version of Interface Builder to Instruments—a powerful new tool for analyzing and optimizing your code.

 

Anderson shows how to manage your source code in any environment, whether you’re working solo or participating in a worldwide team. He thoroughly illuminates Xcode 3’s build system and shows how to make the most of Apple’s performance tools, led by the deep and powerful Shark statistical profiler.

 

Systematically updated for Xcode 3.x, this is a comprehensive revision of Anderson’s previous bestseller, Step into Xcode. Its breadth, depth, and practical focus will make it indispensable to every Mac developer: experienced programmers upgrading from Xcode 2 or migrating from CodeWarrior; UNIX/Linux programmers moving to Mac OS X; even new programmers.

 

Detailed information on how to…

• Succeed with every stage of the Mac OS X application lifecycle
• Make the most of Xcode 3’s core tools for editing, debugging, testing, and compilation
• Get the most from new improvements to Interface Builder
• Create robust applications using the Model-View-Controller paradigm
• Utilize dynamic libraries and frameworks
• Build Universal Binaries to run on both Intel and PowerPC Macs
• Add Spotlight searchability to data files
• Profile memory, I/O, graphics, and threading in real-time
• Accelerate both your applications and your development processes
• Leverage new improvements to the Xcode documentation system
• Avoid header ambiguity, disappearing links, and other Xcode development pitfalls

Introduction 1

 

Part I: The Life Cycle of a Mac OS X Application

Chapter 1: Kicking the Tires 11

Chapter 2: Simple Workflow and Passive Debugging 19

Chapter 3: Simple Active Debugging 29

Chapter 4: Compilation: The Basics 39

Chapter 5: Starting a Cocoa Application 47

Chapter 6: A Cocoa Application: Views 63

Chapter 7: A Cocoa Application: Controllers 75

Chapter 8: Version Control 93

Chapter 9: Property Lists 117

Chapter 10: Libraries and Dependent Targets 141

Chapter 11: File Packages and Bundles 153

Chapter 12: Unit Testing 167

Chapter 13: Creating a Custom View 181

Chapter 14: Dynamic Libraries and Frameworks 203

Chapter 15: Documentation in Xcode 221

Chapter 16: Using the Data Modeling Tools 243

Chapter 17: Cross-Development 267

Chapter 18: Spotlight (or, How to Build a Plug-in) 281

Chapter 19: Finishing Touches 301

 

Part II: Xcode Tasks

Chapter 20: Navigating an Xcode Project 331

Chapter 21: Xcode for make Veterans 353

Chapter 22: More About Debugging 373

Chapter 23: Xcode and Speed 395

Chapter 24: A Legacy Project 403

Chapter 25: Shark and the CHUD Tools 421

Chapter 26: Instruments 437

Chapter 27: Closing Snippets 461

 

Appendices

Appendix A: Some Build Variables 475

Appendix B: Project and Target Templates 485

Appendix C: Other Resources 501

 

Index 507

 

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Unacceptable quality - Aiden R. -
This book was not quality checked. Some code is missing, other code is wrong. The first big project does not work, as reported by another reviewer. Each section introduces the code, concepts, visual layout, and then instructions IN THAT ORDER. So the reader gets to jump back and forth repeatedly, making the quality issues much more frustrating.

It's sad that modern computing books have so many errors, but I think we're all used to it by now. This book is much worse than expected. It says SAMS but I think it's actually by Wrox. It's THAT bad.

Not for inexperienced developers - K Trimbach - Mid-Atlantic, USA
In his introduction, the author states that he designed the book to be useful for both experienced developers and those new to OS X. In this it must be said that he failed. It is not possible for an inexperienced OS X developer to follow the examples in this book without a lot of extra help. Some of the difficulty in this lies in the poor editing job that SAMS does: missing code, rearranged paragraphs, are just a couple of the editing issues. Several times I could not understand something and only after giving up and going on did I find it explained a paragraph or 2 further along. And there was NO troubleshooting help when things didn't work.
On the plus side, if you are familiar with OS X development, this is a good course in learning how to use all the different features that XCode 3 provides. So if you read the title and ignore the introductory exaggeration, this book can be a good tool for the right developer

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This book is filled with little hints and tips and condensed with great material. It reminds me of the Kernighan and Richie's book for C. There's something to learn in each single paragraph.


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Learning Cocoa Overviews

Learn Cocoa™ application development not merely by reading, but by doing.Learning Cocoa begins with essential object-oriented programming concepts for those with no previous experience. It then introduces the Cocoa environment, development, tools, and some simple tutorials to help you understand the elements of Cocoa programming. For the rest of the book you create a series of increasingly complex example applications, with the code right in the text, so you simply type it in. Each tutorial lays the foundation for the more advanced techniques and concepts in the next one. You don't need an extensive programming background to work with this book, though some experience with C is helpful. If you already know an object-oriented programming language like Java or Smalltalk, you'll quickly feel at home with Objective-C, the language of this book. Written by Apple Computer insiders with access to engineers deeply involved in creating Mac OS® X, the book brings you information you can't get anywhere else--and a potential leg up in the Mac OS X application development market.

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For Mac developers of all levels, Learning Cocoa provides an approachable guide to creating applications using Objective-C and the programming tools built into the new Mac OS X operating system. This efficiently packaged text will help virtually anyone master basic Mac application development.

Written by the experts at Apple Computer, Inc., this book sets an admirable standard of clarity for a basic programming tutorial. It begins with the fundamentals of object-oriented programming and Objective-C, the default language used for the Mac platform. Much of the book consists of hands-on exercises for creating a variety of simple Mac applications built on the Cocoa application framework (a rich set of classes that make it simple to create software). Learning Cocoa is not just a source of raw source code; rather, its salient feature is a series of step-by-step guides to working with Mac OS X tools like the Interface Builder and the built-in Apple IDE. From a simple "Hello, World" program and a currency converter to a "Travel Advisor" application (with information on three countries) and a "To Do" application, the book provides exercises that show you all the steps for creating software using a variety of tools.

The discussion of the user interface widgets that are available in the Mac OS X is excellent. You will learn how to design interfaces (which are saved to .nib files), and about the Model-View-Controller architecture recommended by Apple for designing reusable and flexible classes. Later in the book, the same classes are reused in a multiple-document version of the Travel Advisor program. Sample code for a custom widget that displays a calendar will show you how to build custom components.

Throughout this book, there's plenty of information on the nuts and bolts of building successful applications for the Mac OS X, especially memory and resource management. There're also plenty of diagrams and background on the architecture of using Cocoa application framework classes together to create software.

Even Mac beginners should benefit from this concise and well-presented text. It will have you writing simple applications fast, while giving you the latest on the classes and tools available on the newest Mac OS X. --Richard Dragan

Topics covered:

• Overview of the Cocoa framework for Mac OS X
• Object-oriented programming tutorial
• Objective-C language quick start
• Mac application development tools (including Project Builder, Interface Builder, and command-line tools)
• A "Hello, World" application in Cocoa
• Fundamental Cocoa classes (including collections and controls)
• Memory and resource management in Cocoa
• A "Currency Converter" application (including basic GUI programming with Cocoa components)
• Event-handling basics
• Using table views and data sources
• Persistence and "flattening" Cocoa objects
• A "Travel Advisor" sample application (including the Model-View-Controller architecture)
• The Cocoa Multiple-Document Architecture
• A "To Do" scheduling application (including a custom calendar component and timers)
• Deployment in Cocoa (application settings, icons, and document types)
• Compiler optimization in Cocoa
• Reference for basic graphics in Cocoa

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Bad Dog! - A. W. Crawford - WI, US
Dull, dull, dull. Quite literally this is a bunch of documentation you can download from Apple's site bound in a book. Yes, you do learn something, but the ratio of useful information to "type in the program" is awful and it's very dry reading.

Try the Aaron Hillegass book, or the new O'Reilly "Building Cocoa Applications" if you want a useful title on programming Cocoa. I see there's a second edition of this book due in September 2002 - hopefully this'll either pep up the existing content, or add something more (published paper documentation for the Cocoa frameworks is non-existent, probably because some of the on-line documentation I've looked at still has big gaping holes in it - and people wonder why Carbonized apps outnumber those that use Cocoa...)

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Learn the guidelines of integrating Java with native Mac OS X applications with this Devloper Reference book.

Java is used to create nearly every type of application that exists and is one of the most required skills of employers seeking computer programmers. Java code and its libraries can be integrated with Mac OS X features, and this book shows you how to do just that.

You'll learn to write Java programs on OS X and you'll even discover how to integrate them with the Cocoa APIs.

• Shows how Java programs can be integrated with any Mac OS X feature, such as NSView widgets or screen savers
• Reveals the requirements for integrating Java with native OS X applications
• Covers OS X libraries and behaviors unique to working with Java

With this book, you will learn that creating Java-based applications that integrate closely with OS X is not a myth!

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Great Price "Learn C on the Mac (Learn Series)" for $24.83 Today

When it comes to technical books, Apress makes some of my favorite and most useful books. Being in IT, and being a proud Mac owner and Snow Leopard user for about a year now, I figured I should start learning more about developing for Mac's, so I purchased Learn C on the Mac. When purchasing this book, we must keep in mind that just learning C will not allow us to create the coolest looking applications and software for OS X. C is what C++, the more popular Java, and what Objective-C are based on. The goal of this book is teach us the basic fundamentals that prepare us for C++, Objective-C or Java, and to allow us to feel comfortable with Xcode (Xcode is where we code, it's like Visual Studio or Eclipse for the Mac).

For the beginner, this book is perfect, as the author clearly states that to his surprise, he's found children and soccer moms are interested in learning how to code - so it should be really easy to follow. For those that already know VB and C#, the book will be even easier to follow along, and you'll learn the basics of developing for the Mac or iPhone. Overall, this book is an intro to programing (regardless of which language or platform you plan to use) and a guide to using Xcode for programing.

Anything exercises the book has us do, are all ran and debugged in Xcode. Once you finish this book, you'll be able to understand Learn Objective-C on the Mac, also by Apress. Objective-C, based on C (this book), is what Mac's actually run on, and allows for scrolling, menu's, etc... The last step, after understanding Objective C, is to decide what you want to do. Do you want to develop for the Mac or the iPhone? If you choose Mac, Learn Cocoa on the Mac by Apress would be the right book, if you choose to learn mobile Cocoa instead, for the iPhone, you would want Beginning iPhone Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK by Apress too. Cocoa would be what we really need to learn to be able and create iPhone applications and software as we know it today.

Anyways, I don't think it'll matter if your a beginner, or already a developer (non C or Java), you will likely learn from this book. Sure, Java developers might be able to review too, and learn how to use Xcode, but if your already developing in C, Java you might be ready to move on to Objective-C. Have fun learning, and remember, this is not a PC only world anymore!!

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Considered a classic by an entire generation of Mac programmers, this popular guide has been completely 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 all–new 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 is this book 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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Elementary, brief and little to do with Mac OS - John Harpur - Trim, Meath, IRELAND
Recently I downloaded Kindle for the Mac, and out of interest I chose the Kindle version of Learn C on the Mac to experience Kindle in action. The Kindle version did not display any book page numbers which was immensely frustrating since it was hard to gauge where I was in the book without referring back to the table of contents. Not a satisfying user experience.

The book itself is a little higher in quality than complete drek but by a narrow call. Most of the code is built around creating a DVD library - using the terminal for all input and output - a very historical if not dated approach more suited to a 386 PC from the 80s. It is a very simple project, too simple in my opinion for what the Mac has to offer. Code slices are available from the book's website. A long list of bugs are reported by readers on the website along with author responses. Some of the bugs are just down to bad proof reading, but others are more serious. e.g. operator confusion. Towards the end of the book, a short piece on binary trees and searching is preceded by an even shorter piece on recursion (using factorial as exemplar). The author professes himself a fan of Knuth's work so surely something more substantial could have been presented.

In summary the book takes one straightforward terminal focused I/O application and uses it deliver brief illustrations of C constructs and mechanisms. Apart from a couple of screen-shots from XCode at the beginning, a reader could be forgiven for thinking they had stumbled into a time warp of C presentation from 20 or more years ago. Objective-C and Cocoa get mentions that are so brief as to be useless. The 'Mac' component in the book in my opinion is irrelevant. There are better C texts, more substantial and more challenging.

Good book to get started - James Love Lll - Mamaroneck, NY United States
So far this book has been great at introducing some of the concepts necessary for programming in C. I have had some programming experience in he past, so it is not all foreign to me. The programming examples are easy to follow and the book is well organized. This is my first use of a book from Apress, and I will likely purchase follow up books like programming in objective-c.

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I have a pretty solid background of C on unix and bare-metal embedded systems but I'm very new to Mac OS X; you should take that into account when you read the review.

The book has a distinct feel that it was written with the C programmer in mind. The book tells you all about the Objective-C messaging and objects but it keeps emphasising that Objective-C is not a substitute but an addition to C. If you read the book "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X" by Aaron Hillegass you can very easily put together simple applications using XCode. However, if you have a deeply entrenched C background, you will feel lost a bit, because you don't know what's going on. Now this book tells you exactly that. It explains all the major Cocoa classes and the messaging but does it in a way that makes sense with a purely C background.

There are a couple of typographic errors in the book that are rather distracting. Code listings are line numbered and the text refers to the line numbers when it explains the workings of the code. The problem is, the numbers do not always match. You may have a listing of lines 1 to 20 and the text pointing out the clever trick used in lines 76 and 80. The code that the text refers to is all there, it's just the line numbers that are wrong. Obviously, when the text was written the author had a longer piece of code and later decided to remove all unimportant lines before the function in question, but forgot to update the references. At a few places the text simply doesn't make sense, apparently the author decided to rephrase a couple of consecutive sentences and haven't finished it. As expected, you have half-finished sentences, not forming a logical chain of thought.

Nevertheless, those problems are not show-stoppers. When you encounter them, you'll need to put some extra effort in deciphering the actual meaning or working out a listing offset. It is a distraction and a quite annoying one, but you can get the information.

Overall, this book will help you to understand the features and inner workings of Objective-C, the organisation of the major Cocoa frameworks and classes. It explains the Cocoa event system in depth and prepares you to feel comfortable with XCode even if you come from a non object oriented, "vi, make and gdb are the best development environment" centric background. After this book you can use the book from Aaron Hillegass and you will actually know what will going to happen in your code if you drag this thingy over there to that thingy in the interface builder, as per Aaron's instructions.

Furthermore, the book explains the differences between Objective-C 1.x and 2.0, the changes to Cocoa over the various OS X versions and shows how to write code that is backward compatible as well as forward compatible, i.e. not dependent on features that Apple might remove in future OS X versions. It also explains the differences between the Apple and GNU versions of Objective-C so that you can write code that is at least partially reusable on the GNU environment.

An important note: This book is not for iPhone development. Where the iPhone and OS X are different, the OS X version is explained but the iPhone is not. In such cases there is always a warning about the difference and usually some advice about achieving the same outcome on the iPhone, but you will need to consult iPhone specific documentation.

The book assumes that you are fluent in C and you have at least a vague idea about what object-oriented design is all about, even if you've never done any OO programming. You do not need to know Objective-C but, again you *do* need to know C to understand the book. Furthermore, having familiarity with event-driven programs, though not a requirement, will help. The book explains how events are delivered, but not the design philosophy behind event driven systems.

The book gives you a historical background regarding to OS X, Objective-C and Cocoa. It describes the (not always rosy) relationships between the Free Software Foundation, NeXT and Apple. It also explains how the GNU and non-GNU tools, old Apple technologies, NEXTSTEP, BSD and the Mach kernel are rolled together to form OS X. The history is written in a very readable style, telling the facts and explaining the business and politics behind the decisions. Nevertheless, this part of the book is very concise, it just "puts you in picture". The rest is highly concentrated information, written in an easy to follow, readable style but without fluff.

In summary, if you want to do OS X Cocoa development and you know your way around in writing software but you don't have an OO background then this is an excellent book, which I recommend to be read before any of the other Cocoa development books.

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Cocoa Programming Developer's Handbook Overviews

The Cocoa programming environment—Apple’s powerful set of clean, object-oriented APIs—is increasingly becoming the basis of almost all contemporary Mac OS X development. With its long history of constant refinement and improvement, Cocoa has matured into a sophisticated programming environment that can make Mac OS X application development quick, efficient, and even fun.

 

Yet for all its refined elegance and ease of use, the staggering size of the Cocoa family of APIs and the vast magnitude of the official documentation can be intimidating to even seasoned programmers.

 

To help Mac OS X developers sort through and begin to put to practical use Cocoa’s vast array of tools and technologies, Cocoa Programming Developer’s Handbook provides a guided tour of the Cocoa APIs found on Mac OS X, thoroughly discussing—and showing in action—Cocoa’s core frameworks and other vital components, as well as calling attention to some of the more interesting but often overlooked parts of the APIs and tools. 

 

This book provides expert insight into a wide range of key topics, from user interface design to network programming and performance tuning.

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Still learning - M - CA, USA
I'm still working my way through this book. It's very thick, but so far, I've gained a solid base of knowledge on what Objective-C can do. The example code is excellent and not full of errors like some programming book's code I've bought. My only concern is that I've skipped ahead and the base is all you get really. It's up to you to fill in the blanks, and decide what to get next to learn more about Mac|iPhone programming. I'd recommend a good Cocoa book to go with this.

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I've been developing iPhone applications for a year now, and I wish I had this book when I started. While not every topic is covered in depth, it goes over many aspects of the SDK to enough detail to get started writing my own applications. I have used a couple of the examples in the book to build or fix parts of my current applications that weren't working quite right. One of those is the chapter on Core Animation. I popped in the sample code, and had the animation doing the exact thing that was illustrated in the chapter.

While I have still found some use for this book, I think the best readers will be those who are new to iPhone development, and want to start off not from OS 1.0, but OS 3.0 The introduction to Core Data is great for a beginner. In fact, it's rather amazing that you can read about Core Data and how to use it within your Table Views effectively. Most books cover one or the other. XCode does, and will evolve, but the fundamentals laid down in this book will be of use to you for every new iPhone OS release.

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Join the gold rush to developing cool iPhone apps with this complete iPhone OS 3 developer’s guide. Professional developer Jiva DeVoe speaks your language, and he talks you through the entire process—from explaining Cocoa Touch and the iPhone SDK to using Xcode and the Game Kit API. Follow step-by-step tutorials, then apply practical tips on signing and selling your applications. Even if you’re new to iPhone development you’ll soon be cranking out great code.

• Walk through Xcode, Interface Builder, and other key tools
• Build simple or complex GUIs with navigation and custom views
• Implement a database with Core Data, and design your schema in Xcode
• Learn to use the iPhone’s signature multi-touch capabilities in your applications
• Work with the Apple Push Notification Service
• Use the Map Kit API to create apps with embedded maps
• Record audio, play video, and access the iPod Library
• Set up your developer certificates and code sign your apps
• Use Store Kit to sell expanded features and content within your apps

Whether you're a new iPhone developer or seasoned veteran, this book is the perfect go-to reference for iPhone development-and one of an exciting new series for Apple developers.

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Poorly written and outdated. - Jacob A. Rude -
I have had some prior experience programming for the iPhone via various online help sources. I purchased this book in hopes of it being a good book to really dig into the SDK and write/learn alot more code. The book has several errors and outdated information right from the first few chapters. Their equivalent of a "Hello world" app doesn't even run from instruction; you have to assume several things.

Overall, I would not recommend. The book seems rushed and unchecked for readability and accuracy. I'm sure there are several better books written for iPhone development.

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Building Cocoa Applications : A Step by Step Guide

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This is an excellent book for those starting with Cocoa development. The authors take the time to explain how and why things need to be done. And, although they reference a pre-Xcode3 development environment, they provide enough explanation so you can easily use Xcode3 to perform the same capability. When you complete this book, you can read through Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, by Aaron Hillegass. As a prerequisite, you can read Programming in Objective-C, by Stephen G. Kochan to learn Objective-C coding.


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Building Cocoa Applications is an ideal book for serious developers who want to write programs for the Mac OS X using Cocoa. It's a no-nonsense, hands-on text that's filled with examples -- not only simple and self-contained examples of individual Cocoa features, but extended examples of complete applications with enough sophistication and complexity that readers can put them to immediate use in their own environments. Building Cocoa Applications takes a step-by-step approach to teaching developers how to build real graphics applications using Cocoa. By showing the basics of an application in one chapter and then layering additional functionality onto that application in subsequent chapters, the book keeps readers interested and motivated. Readers will see immediate results, and then go on to build onto what they've already achieved. By the end of the book, readers who have built the applications as they have read will have a solid understanding of what it really means to develop complete and incrementally more complex Cocoa applications. The book comes with extensive source code available for download from the O'Reilly web site, along with an appendix listing additional resources for further study.

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XCode - Rose T. Gage - New Jersey
Hits some points that I needed cleared up but not all of them. Handy for reference which could probably be gotten off of the internet.

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