Beginning Mac OS X Snow Leopard Programming

Geared toward programmers with no prior Mac OS development knowledge," Beginning Mac OS X Snow Leopard Programming" serves as a comprehensive guide to programming on the Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard platform. All Mac OS X systems come with free software development tools and utilities, such as Interface Builder 3, Xcode 3, and Instruments. This title introduces the reader to these tools, and shows how to efficiently start writing programs on Mac OS X Snow Leopard using such languages as Cocoa, new C and Objective-C language advancements in Snow Leopard, and other Unix script programming languages. This book also helps the reader put all of the languages to use together in order to create seamless applications. The appendices include a list of other resources for additional developer information.