The much anticipated release of the third edition of Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X by Aaron Hillegass from Big Nerd Ranch is just around the corner for release.

If your like me, you buy every coding book under the sun and have a bookshelf of tech books right at your finger tips. Funnily enough I have a copy of the 2nd Edition but never spent much time actually using it partly from not having enough time and not long after purchasing the book I moved from Tiger to Leopard which became a problem because of the new version of Xcode and other changes.

Well I’ve started reading the third edition from the start, and the third edition from a beginners perspective is great. The examples are easy to follow and reading the code samples and instructions on how and why they work just makes sense.  You will however find it much easier if you know another language as Cocoa applications are programmed using the Objective C language.

This new book covers all the latest features of programming in Cocoa including Xcode 3, Objective-C 2, core data, the garbage collector, and core animation. If your interesting in starting application development for the Mac, then this is the book for you

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