Core Mac Osx and Unix Programming

by Aaron Hillegass and Mark Dalrymple

Book Overview

This is the first book to introduce programmers to Darwin and the Core Technologies. Without an understanding of how the plumbing works, developers cannot get the best performance and reliability out... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0974078506
• ISBN13: 9780974078502
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Big Nerd Ranch
• Length: 541 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.1" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Reference for OS X Developers

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Amazing, advanced Mac OS X book

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.

One of the best

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.