Bookwatch: Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X gets updated

Way back in December, our Christmas Gift Guide featured our pick of the many OS X-related books out there. One of the recommendations was the (very excellent) Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X by Aaron Hillegass - commonly referred to as 'The Bible' in the Mac development community.

At the time the book was a little outdated -- however in the last couple of weeks an updated third edition has been published. New sections feature Objective-C 2.0, Core Data, Garbage Collection, Xcode 3 and Core Animation, meaning this third edition is all ready for many of the new technologies in Mac OS X Leopard.

At just $32 (via Amazon.com), this updated version clearly ought to be on every developer's bookshelf (and aspiring developer's wishlist).

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krye

It's about time. I've been waiting since Jan for this book!

May 27 2008 at 8:40 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Litebeam

I expected this one and other Cocoa books needing an update as I noted in my blog at http://www.litebeam.net/litebeam/books/books.html

As an owner of the previous edition and his other book I can fully recommend it. On Cocoadev Amsterdam someone said this should be your first Cocoa book and it can replace a couple because of its clarity.

Another nice point is that a community has grown of people who really like to get into programming real applications by studying this book, and a nice podcast can be used as a companion to the reader check it out at http://www.cocoacast.com/

May 26 2008 at 3:54 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Alex

Just picked this up this morning. Can't wait to dig through this during this coming week

May 26 2008 at 3:23 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Leo

Ugly cover.

I won't buy that.

May 26 2008 at 12:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

ChuckB

Aaron is partial to scooters and has ridden one for years.

May 26 2008 at 11:07 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

apt

That's funny - I just ordered this a few hours before this was posted...

I love the scooter image on the front! A bit random, but very stylish!

May 26 2008 at 9:48 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Rowan

No doubt a great book - but what's the deal with the scooter on the cover?! :)

May 26 2008 at 3:19 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Shmaff

What does your silly blog post have to do with this book? Please don't spam or promote your blog here... Thanks.

May 26 2008 at 3:07 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

creanium

I just picked this book up on Wednesday from Amazon. I'm on page 180 already and learning quite a bit. It's been great so far. Very easy to learn and follow along and written in a rather laid-back tone. I love this book so far and Cocoa is proving to be much easier than I expected.

May 26 2008 at 1:30 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

chris v

Does a book such as this teach someone who is a beginner how to code using Cocoa?

I'm not very experienced in the whole programming department but would love to find a book or something that could get me started.

May 26 2008 at 1:04 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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lakiolen

Yes, it's a good book for learning how Cocoa works. Very nice examples. But it doesn't go into much depth of Objective-C (which is what you write Cocoa in).

May 26 2008 at 1:28 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

UnusualAspect

While you're waiting for the book to arrive, you could do a lot worse than check this out...

http://andymatuschak.org/articles/2007/09/09/getting-started-with-cocoa-a-friendlier-approach/

May 26 2008 at 7:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply