Beginning Mac OS X Snow Leopard Programming

A solid introduction to programming on the Mac OS X Snow Leopard platform

The Mac OS X Snow Leopard system comes with everything you need in its complete set of development tools and resources. However, finding where to begin can be challenging. This book serves as an ideal starting point for programming on the Mac OS X Snow Leopard platform. Step-by-step instructions walk you through the details of each featured example so that you can type them out, run them, and even figure out how to debug them when they don't work right. Taking into account that there is usually more than one way to do something when programming, the authors encourage you to experiment with a variety of solutions. This approach enables you to efficiently start writing programs in Mac OS X Snow Leopard using myriad languages and put those languages together in order to create seamless applications.

Coverage Includes:

• The Mac OS X Environment
• Developer Tools
• Xcode
• Interface Builder
• The C Language
• The Objective-C Language
• An Introduction to Cocoa
• Document-Based Cocoa Applications
• Core Data–Based Cocoa Applications
• An Overview of Scripting Languages
• The Bash Shell
• AppleScript and AppleScriptObjC
• Javascript, Dashboard, and Dashcode

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A solid introduction to programming on the Mac OS X Snow Leopard platform

The Mac OS X Snow Leopard system comes with everything you need in its complete set of development tools and resources. However, finding where to begin can be challenging. This book serves as an ideal starting point for programming on the Mac OS X Snow Leopard platform. Step-by-step instructions walk you through the details of each featured example so that you can type them out, run them, and even figure out how to debug them when they don't work right. Taking into account that there is usually more than one way to do something when programming, the authors encourage you to experiment with a variety of solutions. This approach enables you to efficiently start writing programs in Mac OS X Snow Leopard using myriad languages and put those languages together in order to create seamless applications.

Beginning Mac OS X Snow Leopard Programming:

• Teaches you where to find current resources for the developer tools that come with your copy of Mac OS X Snow Leopard
• Explores Xcode®, the application used to build Mac OS X programs
• Walks you through designing a graphical user interface with Interface Builder
• Shows you how application resources are stored and how applications work in multiple languages
• Explains writing applications using the Cocoa® frameworks, Xcode, and Dashcode
• Addresses how various scripting languages extend Mac OS X's command-line interface

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Michael Trent is a technical reviewer for numerous books and magazine articles and the coauthor of Beginning Mac OS X Programming with Drew McCormack.

Drew McCormack is an experienced computational scientist, founder of the "The Mental Faculty"—an independent company developing software for the Mac and iPhone—and the coauthor of Beginning Mac OS X Programming with Michael Trent.

Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.