Mac Osx Developer Guide

by Jesse Feiler

Mac OS X, Apple's newest operating system for the Macintosh platform, is profoundly different from its earlier versions because of its similarity to the UNIX operating system. For developers writing... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 012251341X
• ISBN13: 9780122513411
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
• Length: 594 Pages
• Weight: 2.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

A Differing Opinion

Obviously, every author has a particular audience in mind; and this book is clearly targeted towards the beginner. Consequently, you should ignore *all* of the previous and discouraging reviews on this page, as they were written by serious Mac OS X Developers who were looking for the documentation that Apple hasn't written yet, and appear to be annoyed that Jesse Feiler hasn't taken on that Herculean task! Mr. Feiler has provided a good book for the beginner. If you are looking for a "one-stop-shopping" that consolidates a lot of information scattered throughout various web sites across the internet, and provides plentiful examples in both Java and Objective-C, then you could do far worse than this book. If you read through it faithfully, then you will inevitably outgrow it at some point, and then *will* need to supplement it with information from Apple's Cocoa Development site.Just to clarify, I am not related to or indeed even know Mr. Feiler exept through his writing, and have no relationship whatsoever with Morgan Kaufmann. Rather, I am just a satisfied reader.

Good starter book

This book provides a good start for OS X programming, it helps explain the why behind what's going on. It's not the total solution, and not for those already used to OpenStep/Cocoa programming, but it's a good resource for people getting started.