With this book in hand, you can build solid applications for Mac OS X, iPhone, and iPod Touch -- no matter how much programming experience you have. Cocoa and Objective-C: Up and Running shows you how to use Apple's Cocoa framework and its Objective-C language through step-by-step tutorials, hands-on tasks, clear examples, and sound advice from a Cocoa expert.

With this book in hand, you can build solid applications for Mac OS X, iPhone, and iPod Touch -- no matter how much programming experience you have. Cocoa and Objective-C: Up and Running shows you how to use Apple's Cocoa framework and its Objective-C language through step-by-step tutorials, hands-on tasks, clear examples, and sound advice from a Cocoa expert.

This book provides just enough theory to ground you, yet its primary focus is to help you gain hands-on experience developing Mac software. You'll learn how to build sophisticated Cocoa applications, manage events, create GUIs, and more, with Xcode, Apple's suite of development tools. Each chapter builds on the one preceding it, but if you have some experience you can skip right to the chapters you need.

• Get a quick hands-on tour of basic programming skills using the C language
• Learn how to use Interface Builder to quickly design and prototype your application's user interface
• Start using Objective-C by creating objects, learning memory management, and more
• Learn about the Model-View-Controller method of sharing data between objects
• Understand the Foundation value classes, Cocoa's robust API for storing common data types
• Become familiar with Apple's graphics frameworks, and learn how to make custom views with AppKit

This book is still in progress, but you can get going on this technology through our Rough Cuts edition, which lets you read the manuscript as it's being written, either online or via PDF.