Section 2. Building an Application

Vermont Recipes is based on a single application, used throughout the book to provide a consistent and familiar foundation for all of the Cocoa features I will discuss. As you proceed through the recipes and explore Cocoa’s myriad capabilities, adding new features to the application a step at a time, you will never be in any doubt regarding the underpinnings of a particular task, because you will have built them yourself. By following the linear path traced in the recipes, you will see how to assemble a working, feature-complete application from start to finish. Once you have made it all the way through Vermont Recipes, you will be able to follow a similar process to build a complete application to your own ...

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