Advanced Mac OS X Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (Big Nerd Ranch Guides) - Softcover

Dalrymple, Mark; Hillegass, Aaron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0321706250 ISBN 13: 9780321706256

Publisher: Big Nerd Ranch Guides, 2011

Synopsis

While there are several books on programming for Mac OS X, Advanced Mac OS X Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide is the only one that contains explanations of how to leverage the powerful underlying technologies. This book gets down to the real nitty-gritty. The third edition is updated for Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 and covers new technologies like DTrace, Instruments, Grand Central Dispatch, blocks, and NSOperation.

About this title

Product Description:

Advanced Mac OSX Programming Dalrymple, Advanced Mac OS X Instructor at The Big Nerd Ranch, illuminates Mac OS X's plumbing through nitty-gritty insights that separate great OS X programmers from beginners. His book covers multithreading, IPC, networking, Bonjour, and UNIX APIs, and much more. Full description

Review:

“Mark and Aaron's Core Mac OS X and Unix Programming quickly became my favorite development book. It was the first book to cover the advanced topics not discussed elsewhere. I excitedly read it from cover to cover, eagerly eating up the information on topics I had never examined before. Advanced Mac OS X Programming is an incredible sequel, covering the new Mac OS X technologies that have emerged since. This book goes into a level of detail not offered by other documentation, but also includes easy to follow examples. After reading it, you'll impress your peers with your clear understanding of advanced Mac OS X programming.”

―John A. Vink, television host and software engineer

“Advanced Mac OS X Programming has long been a required text and source of curriculum for my 10-week Mac and iOS programming course. This new edition brings anticipated updates covering the latest Apple developer technologies. The fresh content keeps this classic book relevant and critical to programmers of all levels working on Apple's platforms. There is simply no other collection of published material that covers these advanced topics with equal depth and skill.”

―Chris Parrish, co-founder of RogueSheep, Incorporated, Mac and iOS programming instructor

"Many books will introduce you to the basics of Mac OS X programming. Advanced Mac OS X Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide aims for much more, laying out a course for becoming a seasoned expert in many of the nitty-gritty details of developing for the platform."

―Daniel Jalkut, Red Sweater Software

About this edition

• Publisher: Big Nerd Ranch Guides
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0321706250
• ISBN 13: 9780321706256
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 552