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Mac OS X Developer's Guide
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Author: Jesse Feiler
List Price: $52.95
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ISBN: 012251341X
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (22 October, 2001)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 197,871
Average Customer Rating: 2 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 1 out of 5
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Disappointed. 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.
Rating: 1 out of 5
this weak book betrays it's title
As 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.
Rating: 3 out of 5
More a philosophy guide for OS X development
OK, so three stars could be seen as generous, but this book is not all bad, as some reviewers suggest. Firstly, this book contains some history of the subject area. When I brought this book I was looking for something that would help me understand the pros and cons of the different approaches to programming for OS X in C/C++, JAVA or COCOA. If you are new to COCOA & OS X programming, then this book certainly helps. The book then attempts to give you comparative programming advice for C++ and COCOA - but I've read better programming texts. In terms of useful information content, this book does not justify it thickness. What this book is not is a comprehensive guide to programming for OS X. However it did answer the "C++ or COCOA" question that I had.
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