What You Need to Use Cocoa

Apple provides everything needed to develop Cocoa applications for Mac OS X. Apple’s developer tools are shipped on a CD-ROM in the same box with the Mac OS X operating system CD-ROM. Cocoa can be used with Java, AppleScript, C++, and other languages, but knowledge of C is required in most cases. The Cocoa objects are written in Objective-C.

This book provides an introduction to Objective-C for programmers who are already familiar with C. Objective-C consists of a small set of extensions to ANSI standard C. C programmers with experience using one or more object-oriented languages can learn Objective-C very quickly. When Objective-C is familiar, the more daunting task of learning the large and sometimes complex Cocoa ...

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