Beginning Mac OS X Snow Leopard Programming,9780470577523

Beginning Mac OS X Snow Leopard Programming

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780470577523
ISBN10: 0470577525
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-01-26
Publisher(s): Wrox
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Summary

Geared toward programmers with no prior Mac OS development knowledge, Beginning Mac OS X Snow Leopard Programming serves as a comprehensive guide to programming on the Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard platform. All Mac OS X systems come with free software development tools and utilities, such as Interface Builder 3, Xcode 3, and Instruments. This title introduces the reader to these tools, and shows how to efficiently start writing programs on Mac OS X Snow Leopard using such languages as Cocoa, new C and Objective-C language advancements in Snow Leopard, and other Unix script programming languages. This book also helps the reader put all of the languages to use together in order to create seamless applications. The appendices include a list of other resources for additional developer information.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Mac Os X Developer Resources
The Mac OS X Environment
Developer Tools
Xcode
Interface Builder
Application Programming
The Application
The C Language
The Objective-C Language
Introduction to Cocoa
Document-Based Cocoa Applications
Core Data-Based Cocoa Applications
Script Programming
Overview of Scripting Languages
The Bash Shell
AppleScript and AppleScriptObjC
Javascript, Dashboard, and Dashcode
Index
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