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Core Mac Osx And Unix Programming

Authors: Mark Dalrymple, Aaron Hillegass
Publisher: Big Nerd Ranch
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars

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Sales Rank: 928157

Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 541
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 10 x 7.1 x 1.2

ISBN: 0974078506
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
EAN: 9780974078502
ASIN: 0974078506

Publication Date: June 2003
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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars

Excellent, in depth coverage of OS X UNIX programming November 7, 2004
20 out of 21 found this review helpful

This book is a bit on the pricey side, but it delivers the goods more than many other expensive book in my bookshelf. I own hundreds of programming books (as well as have written several of them). Of them all there is only a handful that I consider trully excellent. This is one of them.

This book covers every possible topic (both OS X specific and UNIX) that you could possibly think of, but the coverage is not lightweight. It is heavy duty information delivered at its best. Fine code examples, and fine discussion, well worth the price.

If Amazon had a ten star rating, this book would get it. - GET IT!

5 out of 5 stars

Excellent Reference for OS X Developers October 7, 2004
15 out of 18 found this review helpful

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5 out of 5 stars

Amazing, advanced Mac OS X book May 20, 2004
20 out of 21 found this review helpful

If you're a programmer and you want to learn more about Mac OS X and its Unix underpinnings, you must have this book. The information in here is not available anywhere else, including in Apple's documentation. The authors have done a remarkable job in ferreting out cool stuff, such as how the memory model works, programming with sockets, using GDB, multithreading, and a zillion more nifty topics. This is a remarkable book.

5 out of 5 stars

One of the best March 16, 2004
10 out of 10 found this review helpful

This is probably the best book I own on Mac programming. It goes into the lower level, hard-core topics that other books are afraid to touch. As I read it straight through, cover to cover, I see how I've been doing things wrong, and I constantly refer back to concepts I just read when I write new code. It makes me the envy of all my peers.

5 out of 5 stars

Book from great people March 9, 2004
15 out of 18 found this review helpful

I bought some months ago "Cocoa programming for Mac OS X" written by the same author A. Hillegass. It was the key book for me to understand the Cocoa. Now I write my own applications and I am sure the next book from The Big Nerd Ranch will help me to discover next areas of the Mac OS X Programming.

However it is a pity that Amazon.com tells us it is a bargain (nearly 30% off the catalog price $97.95). On the Big Nerd Ranch there is a link to a company which sells this book for $65.