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Let's say you have a killer app idea for iPhone and iPad. Where do you begin? Head First iPhone and iPad Development will help you get your first application up and running in no time. You'll not only learn how to design for Apple's devices, you'll also master the iPhone SDK tools -- including Interface Builder, Xcode, and Objective-C programming principles -- to make your app stand out.

Whether you're a seasoned Mac developer who wants to jump into the App store, or someone with strong object-oriented programming skills but no Mac experience, this book is a complete learning experience for creating eye-catching, top-selling iPhone and iPad applications.

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The joint NASA-ESA Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn is the most ambitious planetary mission since the VEGA mission to Venus and Halley in 1985/86 and the Viking arbiters and landers to Mars in 1976. Perhaps Cassini is even more ambitious than these earlier missions, or at least more daring, as it is being attempted as a single launch unlike early missions such as VEGA, Viking and Voyager that benefited from the security of a redundant spacecraft. This volume describes the mission, the orbiter spacecraft, the Titan atmospheric probe and the mission design in articles written by its project scientists and engineering team. These are followed by five articles from each of the discipline working groups discussing the existing knowledge of the Saturnian system and their goals for the mission. Finally, each of the Huygens entry probe instrument teams describes their instruments and measurement objectives. These instruments include an atmospheric structure instrument, an aerosol pyrolyser, an imager/radiometer, a gas chromatograph, a surface science package and a radio science investigation. This book is of interest to all potential users of the Cassini-Huygens data, to those who wish to learn about the planned scientific return from the Cassini Huygens mission and those curious about the processes occurring on this most fascinating planet. A second volume is in preparation that describes the instrumentation carried by the orbiter.

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This book may be recommended by Apple Computer as reading for programmers aspiring to be OS X Cocoa programmers, but these "In a Nutshell..." books from O'Reiley are like the dictionary. They are good references, but not good to learn from.

A much better starting place to learn Cocoa programming -- the best OS X technology for new Mac-OSX only software -- is the book "Learning Cocoa with Objective-C'. This book is also on Apple's recommended reading list for programmers aspiring to master Cocoa.

The ISBN number of "Learning Cocoa..." is: 0-596-00301-3.

I plan to continue my study of Cocoa with "Programming in Objective-C:A Complete Introduction to the Objective-C language". I feel that I need this book even though I know C and C++. Objective-C is quite a bit different. ISBN 0-672-32586-1

Then, I plan to read: "Cocoa Programming" ISBN 0-67232230-7.

That brings me back to the book that I started with. "Cocoa in a Nutshell". Then, I'd be ready for a reference book, and I would also use Apple's web reference, and on-disk reference materials that are on your hard disk when you install Apple's free development tools.


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Cocoa in a Nutshell begins with a complete overview of Cocoa's object classes. It provides developers who may be experienced with other application toolkits the grounding they'll need to start developing Cocoa applications. Common programming tasks are described, and many chapters focus on the larger patterns in the frameworks so developers can understand the larger relationships between the classes in Cocoa, which is essential to using the framework effectively. Cocoa in a Nutshell is divided into two parts, with the first part providing a series of overview chapters that describe specific features of the Cocoa frameworks. The second half of the book is a detailed quick reference to Cocoa's Foundation and Application Kit (AppKit) classes. A complement to Apple's documentation, Cocoa in a Nutshell is the only reference to the classes, functions, types, constants, protocols, and methods that make up Cocoa's Foundation and Application Kit frameworks, based on the Jaguar release (Mac OS X 10.2).

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Useful, only book like it available, but - Twocranes - Long Island USA
Cocoa in a Nutshell was wonderful when first published, providing a book-in-hand reference (albeit with fine print) for the cocoa API's Foundation and AppKit; invaluable to those developing software under and for OSX 10.2 (Jaguar); that was in 2003, six years ago. OSX is now several revisions older (Leopard, 10.5.5) and most developers are targeting Tiger 10.4.11 or later because of security issues and internal features not available in earlier versions.

Real books lack hyperlinks, and you cant copy/paste from them, but they have an existance away from the machine and its noises; you can take them to dinner, to the beach, out to the park; even to the loo or to bed; wherever inspiration is likely to strike without warning.

A revised edition is sadly needed and would be welcomed by the development community, but I suspect the effort involved is unlikely to find enough reward to justify the undertaking; which explains why it has not already been done, understandable but unfortunate.

A must buy for programmers new to cocoa if you are supporting software that runs under older macintosh OS such as Jaguar. Less relevant, but still useful for work under Tiger.

Excellent (albeit a bit dated) reference manual - Marc Lavergne -
This is pretty much a must have reference book if you're programming in Cocoa. The only drawback is that a lot of the new APIs like Core Animation and Core Data are not covered. The last edition dates from 2003 and could use a Leopard update. That aside, this book is virtually indispensable for Cocoa devs who've made it past the beginner hump. If the authors read this review, please put out a Leopard update and I promise to buy 2 copies to help make it worth your while!

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Core Animation is a powerful new Apple technology that debuted with Mac OS X Leopard. As it was later revealed, it was a technology that originated for the iPhone.

Core Animation is actually comprised of two different technologies:
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Core Animation makes it easy to animate a "view" object from point A to point B without having to write your own animation loop or timer callbacks. It can be as simple as just saying "move there" and Core Animation takes care of the rest.

The layering aspect is the part that caught my attention as an OpenGL developer. Basically, you can think of Core Animation as a textured rectangle engine, i.e. apply a 2D image on a quad, and then can transform it (translate, rotate, scale). Apple leverages OpenGL under the hood so this is all really fast...much faster than the traditional techniques which are CPU oriented instead of GPU oriented. But the real leverage of the technology comes from the fact that you can turn on Core Animation for any existing Apple widget so you can use their buttons and various views instead of reinventing the wheel making your own 2D image quads (not to mention event handling/responder chain).

Furthermore, because OpenGL is used as the back end for Core Animation, it is now finally possible to intermix previously unrelated UI pieces together in a single view. So for example, before it was really hard to superimpose an OpenGL view with a Quicktime view and a Cocoa view for building a sophisticated UI. The "layering" part of Core Animation is now the grand unification technology that allows all this to just work together because all can now be rendered via Core Animation layers which is all OpenGL at the bottom. (The technology was originally called LayerKit before Apple renamed it to Core Animation.)

I find this particularly compelling for building UI interfaces. Before I might do a lot of the hard painful work of writing 2D stuff in OpenGL directly that required fluid animation and speed. But now Core Animation provides a simple API to do this and already provides me powerful capabilities such as rendering high quality text (always a pain in OpenGL).

Unfortunately, documentation is hard to come by for Core Animation. I think it has hurt its adoption rate.

Enter Bill Dudney who has addressed that shortcoming by writing the book "Core Animation or Mac OS X and the iPhone".

Bill Dudney covers it all, from simple animation and layer-backed views (i.e. using Core Animation with traditional NSView's on Mac) to using Core Animation layers directly for more powerful and expressive capabilities.

For anybody needing to deal directly with Core Animation, I think this book is a must-have.

However, I have seen some criticisms of the book, mostly from iPhone developers. So I want to be clear on what this book is about (or not about).

This book is specifically geared towards Core Animation, not Cocoa or iPhone programming in general. (Dudney is working on a general iPhone book which is worth looking at.) And knowledge of just Core Animation is not sufficient to build an entire application. This book is best suited for those people who want to make superior and elegant UIs to differentiate their products (or simplify implementation in my case), and not settle for run-of-the-mill looking UIs. For example, he builds a simple Front Row like interface as one of his more advanced code examples. But also to be clear, as much as I wish we had such a thing, this is not an elite Cocoa tips & tricks book or gems book so the focus is learning Core Animation (via mostly simple isolated examples), not doing elaborate example projects.

There is a single chapter on iPhone at the end of the book. There are not a lot of differences between pure Core Animation on Leopard and iPhone, so iPhone doesn't really need a whole lot of discussion. However, this also underscores that the book was really written with a Mac centric focus. The first section of the book covers using Core Animation with NSViews which is an important topic on Mac, but irrelevant to iPhone developers. When the book moves into dealing with Core Animation layers directly, this information is directly applicable to iPhone developers. But I can understand that iPhone developers may experience frustration at needing to work with Mac examples in these sections rather than iPhone examples. But the examples are fairly simple and to the point so you generally don't need to focus on the infrastructure differences between Cocoa and Cocoa Touch. Still, if you are an iPhone only developer, you might want to hold off on this book purchase unless your need to understand Core Animation is great and you can live with the fact that a significant portion of this book does not apply to you.

One other criticism I've seen is that the photos in the printed book are not in color. I can say that the e-book version is at least in color, though I personally don't think color is all that important for the topic material. (You might argue motion is important for animation, but I don't know how to address that in book form, short of making a flip-book.)

I do hope he will do something to address the new features in Snow Leopard and newer versions of iPhone OS whether it be a blog entry or an update to a book.

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Mac OS X Leopard introduces a fantastic new technology that makes writing applications with animated and cinematic user interfaces much easier. We'll explore this new technology by starting with the familiar concepts you already know from the pre-Leopard development kits.

Then we'll see how they apply to the new frameworks and APIs. We'll build on your existing knowledge of Cocoa and bring you efficiently up to speed on what Core Animation is all about.

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I wanted to love this book - Christopher Drum - Berkeley, CA USA
I wrote up a long, detailed breakdown of the failures of this book on my blog at [....], but here's the short version.
The book needs a few things to be successful, especially in light of the new crop of Cocoa developers coming around thanks to the iPhone. Most start with the definitiveCocoa(R) Programming for Mac(R) OS X (3rd Edition) by Aaron Hillegass and move on to learn about specific framework technologies. As such, certain stylistic and programming conventions that have come to represent "Cocoa programming best-practices" are not adhered to at all. Sample projects are lazy in scope, despite the author's stated intention to "spark our imagination." Sample code is often full of ivars and methods that aren't even used in the project. No memory management seems to be used at all. Code fluctuates between using "traditional" bracket notation and dot notation from project to project. And I could go on...

The author's writing is incredibly redundant, and the book could use an editor who isn't afraid to slash and burn. There are long passages that say nothing, and certain concepts and statements that come up again and again. Where on the one hand the author wants us to feel free to make "gaudy" things to learn how to integrate Core Animation into the future of interface design, he spends the better part of the book warning us against doing exactly that. He seems truly terrified that he's unlocking Pandora's Box upon the development community and will be personally held responsible if things start going wrong in Cocoa projects from now, forward. I humbly suggest this isn't the author's role in my life as a developer.

Perhaps my biggest beef with the book is that its target audience is ill-defined. It is definitely not an introduction to Cocoa, but it also tries too hard to hold the hand of more experienced developers. So its too easy for those with Cocoa experience, but too hard for those without experience.

I would really love to see this book re-imagined as a logical next-step from the Hillegass book and dig in deeply to Core Animation. Develop three or four deep, original projects, explain the code development in detail, build on the best-practices Hillegass teaches, and cater exclusively to a development community that understands Objective-C and how to use the Cocoa frameworks without fear.

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Each section includes a reasonably complex sample that puts that section's material to use. Most of the sections also include a "Further Study" area that gives you some homework. This is where the user can expand his knowledge through research and working with the tools.

The book jumps around a bit by first going over simple UI patterns, then spending time talking about audio services and networking, only to come back and spend more time with UI controls, only to jump back into audio/video. Still, one has to remember that this is a reference book and not a novel so jumping around is ok.

The sample applications that I have tried so far are ok and I feel like I have a much better grasp on how the iPhone system works.

This book is not an XCode or Interface Builder tutorial.

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i am surprised by some of the reviews this book is getting. personally..i think is WONDERFUL book...BUT not for beginners. i think if you already have a handle on things, this book can REALLY push your understanding to another limit. if you want to be held by the hand..step by step then please dont get this book, i totally understand where the other reviewers are coming from( YOU DONT BUILD APPS WITH INTERFACE BUILDING IN THIS BOOK ... everything is from scratch 100% code ). ...this book is a MIRACLE.

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Whats with all the complaining about how the api's and device capabilites SHOULD be??? who cares, keep your opinions to forums and blogs, no one wants to read about this who is starting out. Leaves a bad taste in your mouth as soon as you start reading.. asked myself the question, why is this guy even writing about the topic if he's so annoyed with the constraints?! Forget it, too frustrating to make any constructive progress.

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Excellent book for beginners - RoryM - Chicago, IL USA
Wanted to develop an iPhone application, but had never done any iPhone or even Mac programming before. Excellent step-by-step instructions and detailed examples. Well tested sample code and examples that were surprisingly deep and useful. Can't say enough about how good this book really is. Took me from being a rookie to someone who can now effectively develop - and have enough background to use the Apple reference material to get to the next level.

Good introductory book - Amol Kher - Austin, Texas USA
As a completely new Mac programmer, this book was very easy and helped me gently ease into the topics with ample examples and logical flow.

I recommend it to anyone who wants to write an iPhone app.

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Every other iphone book out there sticks to teaching the use of Interface Builder everytime you work on the GUI side of you app. That's totally insane.

I bought this book, made it 4 chapters in and thought I wasted my money. I bought another book and a couple months in realized that all I learned was interface builder and how to make the most basic apps possible. I've gone back to this book and realized it was the only one I needed.

Do not waste your time with making interface builder apps unless you are not a programmer or you are just looking to make a simple app over the weekend and probably never publish it.

This book separates the real programmers from the people who pickup an IDE and think they can code because they can drag and drop GUI components.

I would rather not have any books than not have this book. I would recommend buying it with the Learning Objective c book (from the same publisher) if you are new to the language. I find that it is not as simple to pickup as C++, Java or C# because the syntax is sort of odd. The learning objective c book will help with that.

If you are a good programmer, are new to iphone development, are capable of making really good software and want to create complex apps, this is the only book you will need.

If you are not a programmer (either literally or just think you are a programmer but really are not), are new to iphone and have never written software (on your own without using Google to find all your source code), go get one of the other books that teach drag and drop interface building, you will be lost with this book.

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“This book would be a bargain at ten times its price! If you are writing iPhone software, it will save you weeks of development time. Erica has included dozens of crisp and clear examples illustrating essential iPhone development techniques and many others that show special effects going way beyond Apple’s official documentation.”

—Tim Burks, iPhone Software Developer, TootSweet Software

 

“Erica Sadun’s technical expertise lives up to the Addison-Wesley name. The iPhone Developer’s Cookbook is a comprehensive walkthrough of iPhone development that will help anyone out, from beginners to more experienced developers. Code samples and screenshots help punctuate the numerous tips and tricks in this book.”

—Jacqui Cheng, Associate Editor, Ars Technica

 

“We make our living writing this stuff and yet I am humbled by Erica’s command of her subject matter and the way she presents the material: pleasantly informal, then very appropriately detailed technically. This is a going to be the Petzold book for iPhone developers.”

—Daniel Pasco, Lead Developer and CEO, Black Pixel Luminance

 

“The iPhone Developer’s Cookbook: Building Applications with the iPhone SDK should be the first resource for the beginning iPhone programmer, and is the best supplemental material to Apple’s own documentation.”

—Alex C. Schaefer, Lead Programmer, ApolloIM, iPhone Application Development Specialist, MeLLmo, Inc

 

“Erica’s book is a truly great resource for Cocoa Touch developers. This book goes far beyond the documentation on Apple’s Web site, and she includes methods that give the developer a deeper understanding of the iPhone OS, by letting them glimpse at what’s going on behind the scenes on this incredible mobile platform.”

—John Zorko, Sr. Software Engineer, Mobile Devices

 

The iPhone and iPod touch aren’t just attracting millions of new users; their breakthrough development platform enables programmers to build tomorrow’s killer applications. If you’re getting started with iPhone programming, this book brings together tested, ready-to-use code for hundreds of the challenges you’re most likely to encounter. Use this fully documented, easy-to-customize code to get productive fast—and focus your time on the specifics of your application, not boilerplate tasks.

 

Leading iPhone developer Erica Sadun begins by exploring the iPhone delivery platform and SDK, helping you set up your development environment, and showing how iPhone applications are constructed. Next, she offers single-task recipes for the full spectrum of iPhone/iPod touch programming jobs:

• Utilize views and tables
• Organize interface elements
• Alert and respond to users
• Access the Address Book (people), Core Location (places), and Sensors (things)
• Connect to the Internet and Web services
• Display media content
• Create secure Keychain entries
• And much more

 

You’ll even discover how to use Cover Flow to create gorgeous visual selection experiences that put scrolling lists to shame!

 

This book is organized for fast access: related tasks are grouped together, and you can jump directly to the right solution, even if you don’t know which class or framework to use. All code is based on Apple’s publicly released iPhone SDK, not a beta. No matter what iPhone projects come your way, The iPhone Developer’s Cookbook will be your indispensable companion.

 

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Definitely NOT helpful for new iPhone developers. - software developer -
This book is very frustrating, and an immense disappointment. Despite my 40 years of software development on other platforms, this book is woefully inadequate at helping someone new to iPhone development. Unclear documentation, poorly laid out source code (Ms. Sadun admits that it's done this way for ease of book publishing, not for the user of the book). Downloading the code itself is an exercise in frustration, requiring that you set up other tools (without any documentation) just to be able to download. If you bother to compile the examples, every one has the same name, so you are left with a mess to separate and cleanup, both on your mac and on the iPhone. The author gives you a website if you have any questions, but totally fails to answer a single question or provide any help whatsoever.

Perhaps if you are already a very experienced iPhone developer you can gain some useful kernels of wisdom from this book, but otherwise it's useless. Stay away!

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