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Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X Aaron Hillegass. 2002. Boston Addison-Wesley. 370 pages. ISBN: 0-201-72683-1 (CSQ,E Body of Knowledge area: Software Engineering Processes)
Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X by Aaron Hillegass is an easy-to-- read and well-illustrated journey through the ins and outs of Cocoa, Apple's object-oriented application development environment. The book's purpose is to provide a wide range of "how-to" information designed to get those new to Cocoa up to speed as quickly as possible.
Apple Computer's release of Mac OS X in March of 2001 culminated a four-year effort to successfully integrate a diverse collection of evolutionary and revolutionary technologies into a seamless user experience. Going beyond the user interface (called Aqua), Mac OS X provides software developers with several unique application development environments (Classic, Carbon, Cocoa, and Java). Each environment is designed to facilitate building new applications that take advantage of the unique and powerful underlying technologies Mac OS X has to offer.
Hillegass' book documents how to build an application using Cocoa, the object-oriented framework (that is, software libraries,...