Cocoa Recipes for Mac OS X | 
 enlarge | Author: Bill Cheeseman
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 856414
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 780
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7 x 1.6
ISBN: 0201878011
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.26
UPC: 785342878011
EAN: 9780201878011
ASIN: 0201878011
Publication Date: November 14, 2002
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Condition: Visible shelf wear -- may have some notes/markings on pages
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Cocoa Recipes for Mac OS X takes a practical, no-nonsense, hands-on, step-by-step approach, walking you through the details of building a Cocoa application from start to finish. It explains in detail what the code is doing and why it works, Cocoa Recipes places a decided emphasis on getting an application to work correctly as quickly as possible. This collection of, do-it-yourself recipes guides you through the process of creating classes and subclasses, objects, outlets, and actions. Cocoa is one of the main object-oriented software development environments for Mac OS X.
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 Very good for people new to Cocoa! October 22, 2005
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am new to Cocoa & Mac OS X Development.
This book is one of the fastest/easiest ways to get a Cocoa feeling.
I really enjoyed this book. By following this book, you will develop a real Cocoa application. All steps are clearly documented (what/how/where etc).
This book is not written for experienced Cocoa developers. For this people, this book would be probably to easy ('I know this already').
 An unusual and very practical approach, but not for everyone May 9, 2004
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
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.
Good but a chore to learn from August 22, 2003
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I have been working on learning Cocoa part-time so this seemed like a good book to try to get me up to speed. There is a lot of information packed in this text- unlike some, there are really very few figures and pictures and there is an awful lot of explanatory text and digressions as new concepts arise. The main problem I have with the approach here is that it takes a _long_ time between successive builds of the application. In fact, one must plow through 70+ pages before even getting to the first time you are told to build an executable of what you have been working on. This really goes counter to the Cocoa paradigm of ease of application construction- I much prefer a more experimental approach in which small incremental changes are made to the application, so that the effect of new features can be appreciated right away. Here, by the time you rebuild the application, a lot of time has passed since you coded the features, so the connection between the code and the app feature is not so immediate or clear. Also, if there are bugs from your typing, it is hard to fix your app as it has been a long time since a previous build, so for someone new to Cocoa, it can be hard to know where to look for the errors.
The best and most comprehensive tutorials available March 14, 2003
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
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.
Valuable Cocoa Reading February 23, 2003
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
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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