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Cocoa Recipes for Mac OS X

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  • Paperback: 780 pages
  • Publisher: Peachpit Press (November 14, 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0201878011
  • ISBN-13: 978-0201878011
  • Product Dimensions: 7 x 1.6 x 8.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
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3.0 out of 5 starsAn unusual and very practical approach, but not for everyone
By Ben Haller on May 9, 2004
Format: Paperback
This book takes an unusual approach that some people seem to like and others don't. The entire book is devoted to building a single Cocoa application, step by step. Each step builds on what has come before, so you really can't jump around in the book at all. And the book is entirely example-driven; there is very little text talking about higher-level concepts, principles and design. If you learn best by example, and you want to see a large, high-quality application in Cocoa built from the ground up, then this book might be very good for you. Others will probably find it frustrating.
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe ULTIMATE MAC OS X tutorial learning guide
By Kelsey McClanahan on November 26, 2002
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Cocoa Recipes for Mac OS X is a great guide for anyone interested in writing applications for MAC OS X. It is chocked full of USEFUL real-life programming examples. Each chapter successively builds upon the last to churn out and refine a true to the bone Mac OS X application. Nearly everything you'd like to learn how to accomplish with the Cocoa Framework is here. Lots of code examples show you how to implement tabbed views, menus, drawers and a whole slew of other user-controls.
One outstanding feature this book provides (and should be standard in every programming book) is a Table of Topics. This table immediately follows the table of contents and provides an alphabetical list of controls, objects, and major classes from the Cocoa Framework and where in the book to find examples on coding these items. This feature is great. If you've ever thumbed through a programming book in frustration looking for an example on how to program some obscure function that you recall reading once... --you'll understand just how useful a Table of Topics is!
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe best and most comprehensive tutorials available
By Erik M. Buck on March 13, 2003
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This is an excellent programming cook book. Armed with this book and some conceptual background, the world of Cocoa Programming is open to you. This book is not suitable for people who have never programmed before, but you don't need a computer science degree to use it either. The individual recipes are each valuable and explain both the "hows" and "whys" of common Cocoa programming techniques. The book has a "learn by doing" philosophy. The recipes in this book are the best and most comprehensive tutorials available for Cocoa programming, but they are long. Plan to spend several hours working on each recipe. Once mastered, you will be able to modify and reuse each recipe to develop countless applications. This book will give you a sense of how the pieces of Cocoa fit together so that you will be able to more easily approach new programming topics.
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5.0 out of 5 starsValuable Cocoa Reading
By Tony Becis on February 23, 2003
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Anyone serious about learning Cocoa should consider adding Cocoa Recipes to their reference arsenal. I have found it to be a valuable source of information that extends the essential Cocoa books authored by Hillegasse, and Anguish et al. Cocoa Recipes discusses in depth a number of areas not discussed extensively in other titles. I found the discussion on formatters very useful. Also, Cocoa Recipes provides an additional perspective in relation to core cocoa programming tasks. Best of all, it provides many practical, easy to adopt code examples. If you are serious about learning Cocoa, you will get something out of this book. Cocoa Recipes is best read after you have read one or two of the Cocoa books mentioned above. It will help round out your knowledge and will become a valuable reference source.
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4.0 out of 5 starsDepends what your needs are
By Phil on October 27, 2013
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If you already know some C and Objective-C but are struggling to get up to speed with Cocoa (as I was), and if you're aiming to write a document-based app for OS X (as I am), then this book is probably a must. I'm certainly learning a lot from it that I'd been struggling to get from other books like Hillegaas and a couple of others I'd bought.

Some things you'll have to contend with: you'll need to know your way a bit round Xcode 5 because the author's references to Xcode are to Xcode 3, and quite a bit has changed. You'll also have to ignore any code that release's objects (just leave it out) as ARC makes all that redundant. In short, you'll have to translate the differences from 2010 to 2013 yourself, but so far I haven't found that too difficult. You'll also have to develop some angel-like patience or learn to skim and scan past the author's lengthy diversions (many of them about obsolete Xcode features), but be careful. There's gems often buried in those bits (like I didn't know you could do shift-control-click to select objects in an IB view).

As others have said, the author's verbosity is at times challenging and the book could really have benefited from a more ruthless editor. However, there's two sides to every coin and one of the things that makes this book of value to me is the fact that the author does take time to clearly explain many of the relationships in Cocoa (like delegates, for instance. AT LAST!) that others either make a mess of or breeze past far too superficially.

Overall, I'm learning quite a lot from this book and I'm back on track to getting my own app past the conceptual stage (something I'd nearly given up on after the last few Cocoa books I read didn't seem to help me make any progress).Read more ›
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