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The best-selling introduction to Cocoa, once again updated to cover the latest Mac programming technologies, and still enthusiastically recommended by experienced Mac OS X developers. "Aaronrs"s book is the gold standard for Mac OS X programming books-beautifully written, and thoughtfully sculpted. The best book on Leopard development." -Scott Stevenson, www.theocacao.com "This is the first book Irs"d recommend for anyone wanting to learn Cocoa from scratch. Aaronrs"s one of the few (perhaps only) full-time professional Cocoa instructors, and his teaching experience shows in the book." -Tim Burks, software developer and creator of the Nu programming language, www.programming.nu "If yours"re a UNIX or Windows developer who picked up a Mac OS X machine recently in hopes of developing new apps or porting your apps to Mac users, this book should be strongly considered as one of your essential reference and training tomes." -Kevin H. Spencer, Apple Certified Technical Coordinator If yours"re developing applications for Mac OS X,Cocoareg; Programming for Macreg; OS X, Third Edition,is the book yours"ve been waiting to get your hands on. If yours"re new to the Mac environment, itrs"s probably the book yours"ve been told to read first. Covering the bulk of what you need to know to develop full-featured applications for OS X, written in an engaging tutorial style, and thoroughly class-tested to assure clarity and accuracy, it is an invaluable resource for any Mac programmer. Specifically, Aaron Hillegass introduces the three most commonly used Mac developer tools: Xcode, Interface Builder, and Instruments. He also covers the Objective-C language and the major design patterns of Cocoa. Aaron illustrates his explanations with exemplary code, written in the idioms of the Cocoa community, to show you how Mac programs should be written. After reading this book, you will know enough to understand and utilize Applers"s online documentation for your own unique needs. And you will know enough to write your own stylish code. Updated for Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5, this revised edition includes coverage of Xcode 3, Objective-C 2, Core Data, the garbage collector, and CoreAnimation.

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.

Preface	p. xvii
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Cocoa: What Is It?	p. 1
A Little History	p. 1
Tools	p. 3
Languag	p. 4
Objects, Classes, Methods, and Messages	p. 4
Frameworks	p. 6
How to Read This Book	p. 6
Typographical Conventions	p. 7
Common Mistakes	p. 7
How to Learn
Let's Get Started	p. 9
In Xcode	p. 9
In Interface Builder	p. 13
Back in Xcode	p. 23
Documentation	p. 29
What Have You Done?	p. 30
Objective-C	p. 33
Creating and Using Instances	p. 33
Using Existing Classes	p. 35
Creating Your Own Classes	p. 46
The Debugger	p. 58
What Have You Done?	p. 62
For the More Curious: How Does Messaging Work?	p. 62
Challenge	p. 64
Memory Management	p. 65
Turning the Garbage Collector On and Off	p. 66
Living with the Garbage Collector	p. 68
Living with Retain Counts	p. 68
What Have You Done?	p. 77
Target/Action	p. 79
Some Commonly Used Subclasses of NSControl	p. 81
Start the SpeakLine Example	p. 85
Lay Out the Nib File	p. 86
Implementing the AppController Class	p. 88
For the More Curious: Setting the Target Programmatically	p. 90
Challenge	p. 90
Debugging Hints	p. 92
Helper Objects	p. 95
Delegates	p. 96
The NSTableView and Its dataSource	p. 99
Lay Out the User Interface	p. 102
Make Connections	p. 103
Edit AppController.m	p. 105
For the More Curious: How Delegates Work	p. 108
Challenge: Make a Delegate	p. 109
Challenge: Make a Data Source	p. 110
Key-Value Coding
Key-Value Observing	p. 111
Key-Value Coding	p. 111
Bindings	p. 113
Key-Value Observing	p. 115
Making Keys Observable	p. 116
Properties and Their Attributes	p. 118
For the More Curious: Key Paths	p. 120
For the More Curious: Key-Value Observing	p. 121
NSArrayController	p. 123
Starting the RaiseMan Application	p. 124
Key-Value Coding and nil	p. 132
Add Sorting	p. 133
For the More Curious: Sorting without NSArrayController	p. 134
Challenge 1	p. 135
Challenge 2	p. 135
NSUndoManager	p. 139
NSInvocation	p. 139
How the NSUndoManager Works	p. 140
Adding Undo to RaiseMan	p. 142
Key-Value Observing	p. 145
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If you are developing applications for the Mac, or are hoping to do so, this book is just the resource you need. Does it cover everything you will ever want to know about programming for the Mac? Of course it doesn't. But it does cover probably 80% of what you need to know. You can find the remaining 20%, the 20% that is unique to you, in Apple's online documentation.This book, then, acts as a foundation. It covers the Objective-C language and the major design patterns of Cocoa. It will also get you started with the three most commonly used developer tools: Xcode, Interface Builder, and Instruments. After reading this book, you will be able to understand and utilize Apple's online documentation.There is a lot of code in this book. Through that code, I will introduce you to the idioms of the Cocoa community. My hope is that by presenting exemplary code, I can help you to become not just a Cocoa developer, but a stylish Cocoa developer.This third edition includes technologies introduced in Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5. These include Xcode 3, Objective-C 2, Core Data, the garbage collector, and CoreAnimation.This book is written for programmers who already know some C programming and something about objects. You are not expected to have any experience with Mac programming. It's a hands-on book and assumes that you have access to Mac OS X and the developer tools. The developer tools are free. If you bought a shrink-wrapped copy of Mac OS X, the installer for the developer tools was on the DVD. The tools can also be downloaded from the Apple Developer Connection Web site ( http://developer.apple.com/ ).I have tried to make this book as useful for you as possible, if not indispensable. That said, I'd love to hear from you if you have any suggestions for improving it.Aaron Hillegass aaron@bignerdranch.com

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