Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X For Dummies - Tapa blanda

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Erick Tejkowski was still in elementary school when he began helping to instruct teachers on Apple computers. As a professional developer, he has designed software for clients as varied as Chicken of the Sea, Energizer, Nextel, Edys-Dreyers, Rigid Medical, and Leap Pad.

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Cocoa is hot! Stir up apps for Mac OS X, iPhone, and iPod Touch

It's a great time to go for Cocoa, because it's not only Apple's preferred framework for developing software, it's also the best way for you to create software for Mac OS X and iPhone. This book gives you a solid foundation in Cocoa and the unusual syntax of Objective-C. You'll learn what's new in Cocoa frameworks and create applications step by step.

• X marks the start see how Xcode underlies your applications as the main component of Apple's Developer Tools

• Be objective examine the basics of the Objective-C language and the elements of a Cocoa interface

• Add bells and whistles spruce up your apps with audio, video, Internet features, stylized text, and more

• Graphically speaking create applications with the stunning graphics for which Macs are famous

• High-end Cocoa see how to build apps with multiple documents or even have Xcode build an interface for you

Open the book and find:

• Tips for building a good interface

• How to work with Cocoa numbers, arrays, Booleans, and dates

• Advice on managing files

• Ten tips for easier Cocoa programming

• How to simplify with key-value coding

• What to do with Cocoa on the Internet

• How to add bindings to your application

• Steps for building document-based applications