Learning Cocoa

Cocoa is one of the principal application environments for Mac® OS X. Among Cocoa's many attributes, its advanced object-oriented APIs allow you to develop in both Java and Objective-C. This revolutionary new way of developing sophisticated applications for the Macintosh is both powerful and easy.

Cocoa Programming

Cocoa Programming" teaches programmers how to write Mac OS X applications with Cocoa in Objective-C using object-oriented techniques. It includes tricks and tips that boost programmer productivity.

The Cocoa Cookbook for Mac OS X

Taking a practical, no-nonsense, step-by-step approach, this book walks you through the details of building a Cocoa application from start to finish. It explains in detail what the code is doing and why it works, placing the emphasis on getting an application to work correctly as quickly as possible. The simple, do-it-yourself recipes to guide you through the process of creating classes and subclasses, objects, outlets, and actions.

Practical C Programming

There are lots of introductory C books, but this is the first one that has the no-nonsense, practical approach that has made Nutshell Handbooks(R) famous. C programming is more than just getting the syntax right. Style and debugging also play a tremendous part in creating programs that run well and are easy to maintain. This book teaches you not only the mechanics of programming, but also describes how to create programs that are easy to read, debug, and update.

Numerical Recipes in C

This is the revised and expanded second edition of "Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing". The product of a collaboration among four leading scientists in academic research and industry, "Numerical Receipes" is a complete text and reference book on scientific computing. In a self-contained manner, it proceeds from mathematical and theoretical considerations to actual, practical computer routines.