Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X for Dummies (ISBN - 0470432896)

412 Pages·2021·11.75 MB·English

Erick Tejkowski
Author of REALbasic For Dummies

Learn to:
• Create your own Mac OS X application

• Use all the exciting Cocoa development
features

• Work with Xcode® and Interface
Builder tools

• Program with Cocoa in Objective-C

Cocoa

® Programming
for Mac OS

® X

Making Everything Easier!™

Go to www.dummies.com/go/cocoafd to find project files
for the examples in the book

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

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.

$34.99 US / $41.99 CN / £22.99 UK

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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

Cocoa
® Programming
for Mac OS

® X

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Cocoa
® Programming
for Mac OS
® X

FOR
DUMmIES

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by Erick Tejkowski

Cocoa
® Programming
for Mac OS
® X

FOR
DUMmIES

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Cocoa® Programming for Mac OS® X For Dummies®
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About the Author

Erick Tejkowski is a freelance author and software developer. He is the
author of Cocoa For Dummies, Mac OS X Tiger Simplifi ed, and Mac OS X
Panther: Top 100 Simplifi ed Tips and Tricks, among others. He has also served
in editorial and writing roles for popular Macintosh publications, such as
MacTech, MacWorld, and RB Developer. When he’s not computing, he enjoys
spending his free time with his wife, Lisa, and their children, Mercedes,
Leopold, and Emil.

Dedication

This book is dedicated to Maria Paredes, PhD. Good job!