Mac Osx Developer Guide

Obviously, every author has a particular audience in mind; and this book is clearly targeted towards the beginner. Consequently, you should ignore *all* of the previous and discouraging reviews on this page, as they were written by serious Mac OS X Developers who were looking for the documentation that Apple hasn't written yet, and appear to be annoyed that Jesse Feiler hasn't taken on that Herculean task! Mr. Feiler has provided a good book for the beginner. If you are looking for a "one-stop-shopping" that consolidates a lot of information scattered throughout various web sites across the internet, and provides plentiful examples in both Java and Objective-C, then you could do far worse than this book. If you read through it faithfully, then you will inevitably outgrow it at some point, and then *will* need to supplement it with information from Apple's Cocoa Development site.Just to clarify, I am not related to or indeed even know Mr. Feiler exept through his writing, and have no relationship whatsoever with Morgan Kaufmann. Rather, I am just a satisfied reader.

This book provides a good start for OS X programming, it helps explain the why behind what's going on. It's not the total solution, and not for those already used to OpenStep/Cocoa programming, but it's a good resource for people getting started.