Learning Cocoa with Objective-C is the "must-have" book for people who
want to develop applications for Mac OS X, and is the only book approved
and reviewed by Apple engineers. Based on the Jaguar release of
Mac OS X 10.2, this edition of Learning Cocoa includes examples that use
the Address Book and Universal Access APIs. Also included is a handy
quick reference card, charting Cocoa's Foundation and AppKit frameworks,
along with an Appendix that includes a listing of resources essential to
any Cocoa developer--beginning or advanced.

Completely revised and updated, this 2nd edition begins with some simple
examples to familiarize you with the basic elements of Cocoa programming
as well Apple's Developer Tools, including Project Builder and Interface
Builder.

After introducing you to Project Builder and Interface Builder, it brings
you quickly up to speed on the concepts of object-oriented programming
with Objective-C, the language of choice for building Cocoa applications.
From there, each chapter presents a different sample program for you to
build, with easy to follow, step-by-step instructions to teach you the
fundamentals of Cocoa programming. The techniques you will learn in each
chapter lay the foundation for more advanced techniques and concepts
presented in later chapters.

You'll learn how to:

* Effectively use Apple's suite of Developer Tools, including Project
Builder and Interface Builder
* Build single- and multiple-window document-based applications
* Manipulate text data using Cocoa's text handling capabilities
* Draw with Cocoa
* Add scripting functionality to your applications
* Localize your application for multiple language support
* Polish off your application by adding an icon for use in the Dock,
provide Help, and package your program for distribution
* Each chapter ends with a series of Examples, challenging you to test
your newly-learned skills by tweaking the application you've just built,
or to go back to an earlier example and add to it some new functionality.
Solutions are provided in the Appendix, but you're encouraged to learn
by trying.
* Extensive programming experience is not required to complete the
examples in the book, though experience with the C programming language
will be helpful. If you are familiar with an object-oriented programming
language such as Java or Smalltalk, you will rapidly come up to speed with
the Objective-C language. Otherwise, basic object-oriented and language
concepts are covered where needed.

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