Cocoa Programming: A Quick-Start Guide for Developers

Apple's Cocoa frameworks let you write powerful and attractive applications for Mac OS X or the iPhone. With this book plus your existing knowledge of object-oriented programming you can take advantage of Cocoa and create compelling, feature rich, compliant Mac applications for this industry-leading environment.

Learn to use the Apple developer tools to design your user interface. Write the code, and create the data model. Along the way, we'll show you Objective-C 2.0 concepts and how they relate to Cocoa development, you'll be a Coca programmer.

We assume that you're already familiar with a C-like language and with the concepts of object-oriented programming, so there's no messing around-you'll get right to work. Build your GUI from the visual components that Apple provides using the recently updated Interface Builder.

Leverage the Cocoa frameworks to get the dame look and feel as your favorite Apple applications. If you're looking to write the next "insanely great" app for a Mac, you need Cocoa Programming.