Books : Cocoa in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly))
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by: Michael Beam, James Duncan Davidson
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.268
EAN: 9780596004620
Format: Illustrated
ISBN: 0596004621
Label: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 566
Publication Date: May 19, 2003
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Sales Rank: 314356
Studio: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Cocoa(R) is more than just a collection of classes, and is certainly more than a simple framework. Cocoa is a complete API set, class library, framework, and development environment for building applications and tools to run on Mac OS(R) X. With over 240 classes, Cocoa is divided into two essential frameworks: Foundation and Application Kit. Above all else, Cocoa is a toolkit for creating Mac OS X application interfaces, and it provides access to all of the standard Aqua(R) interface components such as menus, toolbars, windows, buttons, to name a few. 'Cocoa in a Nutshell' begins with a complete overview of Cocoa's object classes. It provides developers who may be experienced with other application toolkits the grounding they'll need to start developing Cocoa applications. Common programming tasks are described, and many chapters focus on the larger patterns in the frameworks so developers can understand the larger relationships between the classes in Cocoa, which is essential to using the framework effectively. 'Cocoa in a Nutshell' is divided into two parts, with the first part providing a series of overview chapters that describe specific features of the Cocoa frameworks. Information you'll find in Part I includes: An overview of the Objective-C language Coverage of the Foundation and Application Kit frameworks Overviews of Cocoa's drawing and text handling classes Network services such as hosts, Rendezvous URL services, sockets, and file handling Distributed notifications and distributed objects for interapplication communication Extending Cocoa applications with other frameworks, including the AddressBook, DiscRecording, and Messaging frameworks The second half of the book is adetailed quick reference to Cocoa's Foundation and Application Kit (AppKit) classes. A complement to Apple's documentation, 'Cocoa in a Nutshell' is the only reference to the classes, functions, types, constants, protocols, and methods that make up Cocoa's Foundation and Application Kit frameworks, based on the Jaguar release (Mac OS X 10.2). Peer-reviewed and approved by Apple's engineers to be part of the Apple Developer Connection (ADe Series, 'Cocoa in a Nutshell' is the book developers will want close at hand as they work. It's the desktop quick reference they can keep by their side to look something up quickly without leaving their work. 'Cocoa in a Nutshell' is the book developers will want close at hand as they work. It's the desktop quick reference they can keep by their side to look something up quickly without leaving their work.
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Rating:  - Excellent (albeit a bit dated) reference manual
This is pretty much a must have reference book if you're programming in Cocoa. The only drawback is that a lot of the new APIs like Core Animation and Core Data are not covered. The last edition dates from 2003 and could use a Leopard update. That aside, this book is virtually indispensable for Cocoa devs who've made it past the beginner hump. If the authors read this review, please put out a Leopard update and I promise to buy 2 copies to help make it worth your while!
Rating:  - A Great Purchase
One of the best books a Cocoa programmer can buy! It references most of the Cocoa API and Objective-C, as well as providing a few good examples. I find it indispensable.
Rating: - A Good Reference -- Not a Tutorial!!!
This book may be recommended by Apple Computer as reading for programmers aspiring to be OS X Cocoa programmers, but these "In a Nutshell..." books from O'Reiley are like the dictionary. They are good references, but not good to learn from.
A much better starting place to learn Cocoa programming -- the best OS X technology for new Mac-OSX only software -- is the book "Learning Cocoa with Objective-C'. This book is also on Apple's recommended reading list for programmers aspiring ... Read More
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