B. Resources

I’ve tried to make this book thorough, but it isn’t comprehensive. Xcode is too big to cover exhaustively, and Apple constantly updates it. Further, your needs as a Cocoa programmer go beyond simply using the tools. This appendix is a brief reference to resources you can use to go further and keep current.

Books

Before the iOS gold rush, there were few books about Cocoa and Xcode, and they were mostly pretty good. Now, there are a lot more, and there is more. . . diversity. These are a selected few.

Image Buck, Erik, Cocoa Design Patterns (2009). Cocoa conforms to a few fundamental patterns, and once you have those down, you’ve gone a ...

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