Skip to Content
Cocoa® Programming for Mac® OS X, Fourth Edition
book

Cocoa® Programming for Mac® OS X, Fourth Edition

by Aaron Hillegass, Adam Preble
November 2011
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
10h 14m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
Content preview from Cocoa® Programming for Mac® OS X, Fourth Edition

Chapter 2. Let’s Get Started

Many books would start off by giving you a lot of philosophy. This would be a waste of precious paper at this point. Instead, we are going to guide you through writing your first Cocoa application. Upon finishing, you will be excited and confused...and ready for the philosophy.

Our first project will be a random number generator application. It will have two buttons: Seed random number generator using time and Generate random number. A text field will display the generated number. This simple example involves taking user input and generating output. At times, the description of what you are doing and why will seem, well, terse. Don’t worry—we will explore all this in more detail throughout this book. For now, just ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Cocoa Programming for OS X: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

Cocoa Programming for OS X: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

Aaron Hillegass, Adam Preble, Nate Chandler

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780132902199Purchase book