Hands-on, step-by-step approach to learning Cocoa, the development environment for creating Mac OS X applications. Any programmer coming to Mac OS X will want to learn Cocoa, the most sophisticated environment for creating Mac OS X-native applications. Very approachable, hands-on guide to learning Cocoa. Shows readers how to avoid common pitfalls and mistakes. Author is known among the Mac OS X programming community for his Cocoa tutorials at Stepwise.com. Cocoa Recipes for Mac OS X takes a practical, no-nonsense, hands-on, step-by-step approach, walking you through the details of building a Cocoa application from start to finish. It explains in detail what the code is doing and why it works, Cocoa Recipes places a decided emphasis on getting an application to work correctly as quickly as possible.

This collection of, do-it-yourself recipes guides you through the process of creating classes and subclasses, objects, outlets, and actions. Cocoa is one of the main object-oriented software development environments for Mac OS X. Previously announced in 4/2002 catalog. Bill Cheeseman is a freelance Macintosh software developer working mostly in AppleScript, the Apple help system, and Cocoa frameworks in Mac OS X. He also writes a Cocoa tutorial column for StepWise.com, a popular Mac OS X and NeXT developer site.