Cocoa^®

Table of Contents

Part I: Getting Started

Chapter 1: Introducing Cocoa

Introducing Cocoa

Understanding Cocoa's history

Moving from NeXTStep to Cocoa

Profiting from Cocoa

Profiting from the iPhone

Developing for fun

Introducing Xcode and the Apple Developer Programs

Working with Xcode and Interface Builder

Working with Safari

Summary

Chapter 2: Think Cocoa!

Designing for Cocoa

Understanding Aqua

Using Aqua with Cocoa

Creating Cocoa Applications

Understanding layers and frameworks

Developing features across layers

Moving to Cocoa and Objective-C from Other Platforms

Working with Objective-C objects and messages

Managing data in Cocoa and Objective-C

Exploring other Cocoa features

Comparing Cocoa to other platforms

Summary

Chapter 3: Introducing the Cocoa and OS X Documentation

Getting Started with the Documentation

Understanding resource types

Understanding Topics

Using the Documentation

Sorting the documentation

Working with source code

Summary

Chapter 4: Getting Started with Xcode

Getting Ready for Xcode

Registering as a developer

Joining the Mac Developer and iPhone Developer programs

Installing Xcode

Creating a New OS X Project

Exploring Xcode's Windows

Understanding Groups & Files

Selecting items for editing

Customizing the toolbar

Summary

Chapter 5: Introducing Classes and Objects in Objective-C

Understanding Objects

Understanding classes

Designing objects

Creating classes

Defining a class interface

Defining accessors: setters and getters

Using self

Defining a ...