Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X ebookGdown.org > Programming > Platform Specific Cocoa, the programming language used for Mac OS X, is taught through a step-by-step tutorial format in this practical and well-organized guide. Hillegass (a trainer and software engineer) is blessed with a writing style that novices will find encouraging in tone though rigorous in material. Applied exercises are given first, followed by the philosophy of the exercise, with each chapter building on earlier tools. The topics include Objective-C, controls, helper objects, archiving, Nib files and NSWindowController, user defaults, using notifications and alert panels, custom views, images and mouse events, responders and keyboard events, NSTimer, sheets, and creating interface builder palettes. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Aaron Hillegas runs Big Nerd Ranch, well-known for its popular Cocoa programming classes. Previously, he was a developer at NeXT and Apple. At Next, he wrote the first course on OpenStep, the predecessor to today's Cocoa tools. At Apple, he created and taught courses in Cocoa directly for and to Apple engineers. This book is based on Aaron's Big Nerd Ranch course and is influenced by 15 years of work with OpenStep and Cocoa. Tags:
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