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Mac OS X Developer s Guide
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Rating: 2/5 from 10 reviews A 580 page overview, A Developers Introduction0 starsDisappointed. This book is worthless. The author should not try to write a book while smoking dope. The first half of the book is a Mac-is-great commercial. The last half of the book is a Mac-is-great commercial. Yes, I know the Mac-is-great, I love the Mac, Macs are cool, Macs are usefull, rah rah rah. Unfortunately, the book is content free. No actual developers were involved in the production of this book; no actual developers were informed by reading this book. this weak book betrays it's titleAs a C developer of Mac & Win software, I bought this book hoping it would be of some help for porting an existing MacOS application (written in C) to Carbon/Mach-O. This book is worthless for C/C++ developers. This book is biased toward new projects written in Objective-C & the Cocoa framework. It ignores C, pushing the objective-c language instead. The first 100 pages deal with topics as worthless as "what is a programmer" and "the history of the mac os" ... Who cares? Teach me about the Event Manager and Quickdraw vs. Quartz. Did you know that this book makes NO mention of Quartz and only has one page number listed for "Darwin" (pg 141). I've already returned it and I'm now looking for something else. | ||||||||||||||||||||
A "Developer's Introduction" is a better title for this book.
If your brand spanking fresh to OS X (where have you been?), buy the book!
Otherwise, consider "Carbon Programming"..that book doesn't mess around.