Learn Cocoa on the Mac

Apple’s Cocoa is required knowledge for anyone who wants to program a Mac or the Apple iPhone. Cocoa is one of the most advanced developer frameworks available, is as much a state of mind as it is a Tool.

Dave Mark is the first author to teach the framework and the philosophy behind the framework. Learn Cocoa for the Mac is a guide for programmers new to Cocoa specifically intended for creating real Mac OS X and iPhone applications, but without suffering the usually painful learning curve.

Cocoa is a rich tool and there’s much to learn, but Mark is able to encapsulate the learning experience and make it both fun and productive.

Whereas a book such as Hillegas introduces Cocoa to increase reader familiarity with it, this book is the first to show budding Mac developers how to get their hands busy with Cocoa to build their own apps!

Jack Nutting has been using Cocoa since the olden days, long before it was even called Cocoa. He's used Cocoa and its predecessors to develop software for a wide range of industries and applications including gaming, graphic design, online digital distribution, telecommunications, finance, publishing, and travel. When he's not working on Mac or iPhone projects, he's developing web applications with Ruby on Rails. Jack is a passionate proponent of Objective-C and the Cocoa frameworks; At the drop of a hat, he will speak at length on the virtues of dynamic dispatch and runtime class manipulations to anyone who'll listen (and even to some who won’t). He blogs from time to time at www.nuthole.com.

Dave Mark is a long-time Mac developer and author and has written a number of books on Macintosh development, including Learn C on the Macintosh, The Macintosh Programming Primer series, and Ultimate Mac Programming. His blog can be found at www.davemark.com.

Jeff LaMarche is a longtime Mac developer, and Apple iPhone Developer. With over 20 years of programming experience, he’s written on Cocoa and Objective-C for MacTech Magazine, as well as articles for Apple’s Developer Technical Services website. He has experience working in Enterprise software, both as a developer for PeopleSoft starting in the late 1990s, and then later as an independent consultant.