Advanced Mac OS X Programming (2nd Edition of Core Mac OS X & Unix Programming) @ richardeward.com

Advanced Mac OS X Programming (2nd Edition of Core Mac OS X & Unix Programming)
by Mark Dalrymple, Aaron Hillegass
from Big Nerd Ranch

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• A great resource
  Don't expect to learn to code from this book, but once you know how this book will help you solve any problems that you run across.
  I don't think that I'll ever read it cover-to-cover, but I know that it will always be in my library.
  

• Nice Book
  If you are a Programmer not in College, this is a nice book. As I read it, I learned several new things but then when I took Operating Systems Programming, I realized that we went over everything in the book, more in depth, and then some. If you aren't a Computer Science Major and you want to really program on the Mac, buy this book. However, if you are going to College, save your money. Let your professor teach it to you.

• Awesome book for anyone looking to learn low-level
  This book fills in most gaps you might encounter while learning about the low-level BSD/Mach aspect of Mac OS X and Darwin. Mach and BSD iokit is described in detail, and there are tons of useful code examples all over the book. This book even explains ipc and pipes very well, and isn't the size of the bible, like other books. It gets to the point as soon as you get past the TOC.

• Read This Book
  If you're a Mac OS X developer and want to get serious about it, this book is mandatory. It is always on my desk right by the computer, and really is that perfect reference. Nothing really compares to this book, the previous Aaron Hillegass book is rather basic but is more of an introduction. I have a BS degree in CS and even though a lot of this has been covered, the rest of it is done in graduate school. So if you're looking for that little bit extra, give it a shot.

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