Beginning Mac OS X Snow Leopard Programming

by Michael Trent, Drew McCormack

A solid introduction to programming on the Mac OS X Snow Leopard platformThe Mac OS X Snow Leopard system comes with everything you need in its complete set of development tools and resources. However, finding where to begin can be challenging. This book serves as an ideal starting point for programming on the Mac OS X Snow Leopard platform. Step-by-step instructions walk you through the details of each featured example so that you can type them out, run them, and even figure out how to debug them when they don't work right. Taking into account that there is usually more than one way to do something when programming, the authors encourage you to experiment with a variety of solutions. This approach enables you to efficiently start writing programs in Mac OS X Snow Leopard using myriad languages and put those languages together in order to create seamless applications.Beginning Mac OS X Snow Leopard you where to find current resources for the developer tools that come with your copy of Mac OS X Snow LeopardExplores Xcode, the application used to build Mac OS X programsWalks you through designing a graphical user interface with Interface BuilderShows you how application resources are stored and how applications work in multiple languagesExplains writing applications using the Cocoa frameworks, Xcode, and DashcodeAddresses how various scripting languages extend Mac OS X's command-line interfacewrox.comProgrammer ForumsJoin our Programmer to Programmer forums to ask and answer programming questions about this book, join discussions on the hottest topics in the industry, and connect with fellow programmers from around the world.Code DownloadsTake advantage of free code samples from this book, as well as code samples from hundreds of other books, all ready to use.Read MoreFind articles, ebooks, sample chapters and tables of contents for hundreds of books, and more reference resources on programming topics that matter to you.

676 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2010