Beginning Mac OS X Snow Leopard Programming -- About the Authors -- Contents -- Introduction -- WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR -- HOW THIS BOOK IS STRUCTURED -- WHAT YOU NEED TO USE THIS BOOK -- CONVENTIONS -- SOURCE CODE -- ERRATA -- P2P.WROX.COM -- Part I: Mac OS X Developer Resources -- Chapter 1: The Mac OS X Environment -- INTRODUCING THE MAC OS X -- THE CORE OPERATING SYSTEM -- GRAPHICS AND MEDIA LAYERS -- APPLICATION FRAMEWORKS AND UI -- APPLE HUMAN INTERFACE GUIDELINES -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 2: Developer Tools -- INSTALLING THE DEVELOPER SOFTWARE -- DEVELOPER APPLICATIONS -- DEVELOPER DOCUMENTATION AND EXAMPLES -- APPLE DEVELOPER CONNECTION -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 3: Xcode -- STARTING A NEW PROJECT -- WORKING WITH FILES -- WRITING YOUR CODE -- BUILDING AND RUNNING -- FINDING PROBLEMS WITH THE STATIC ANALYZER -- USING THE DEBUGGER -- ONLINE DOCUMENTATION -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 4: Interface Builder -- STARTING A NEW INTERFACE -- BUILDING MENUS -- BUILDING WINDOWS -- MAKING WINDOWS RESIZABLE -- SUMMARY -- Part II: Application Programming -- Chapter 5: The Application -- BASIC BUNDLE STRUCTURE -- EXAMINING APPLICATION BUNDLES -- BUILDING AN APPLICATION BUNDLE -- APPLICATION PREFERENCES -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 6: The C Language -- A LITTLE HISTORY -- GETTING STARTED -- VARIABLES AND DATA TYPES -- OPERATORS -- ARRAYS AND POINTERS -- CONDITIONAL BRANCHING -- LOOPS -- FUNCTIONS AND BLOCKS -- CHARACTERS AND STRINGS -- INPUT/OUTPUT -- DATA STRUCTURES -- MEMORY MANAGEMENT -- THE PREPROCESSOR -- ORGANIZING PROGRAMS -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 7: The Objective-C Language -- OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING -- CLASSES AND OBJECTS -- METHODS -- DATA HIDING -- SUBCLASSING -- MESSAGING -- PROTOCOLS AND INFORMAL PROTOCOLS -- NAMING CONVENTIONS -- CREATING AND DESTROYING OBJECTS -- MEMORY MANAGEMENT -- ACCESSOR METHODS AND PROPERTIES -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 8: Introduction to Cocoa.

CONNECTING COCOA INTERFACES -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 9: Document-Based Cocoa Applications -- WORKING WITH DOCUMENTS -- SUBCLASSING CONTROLS IN INTERFACE BUILDER -- CONNECTING MENUS -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 10: Core Data-Based Cocoa Applications -- ARCHIVING OBJECTIVE-C OBJECTS -- MODELING OBJECTS WITH CORE DATA -- CONNECTING USER INTERFACE TO CORE DATA -- SELECTING FILES WITH OPEN PANELS -- CREATING NEW DOCUMENTS -- SORTING RESULTS -- USING TRANSIENT OBJECTS -- APPLICATION PREFERENCES -- SUMMARY -- Part III: Script Programming -- Chapter 11: Overview of Scripting Languages -- WHAT IS A SCRIPT? -- WHAT IS A SCRIPTING LANGUAGE? -- BASH -- APPLESCRIPT -- PYTHON -- RUBY -- JAVASCRIPT -- OTHER SCRIPTING LANGUAGES -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 12: The Bash Shell -- GETTING STARTED -- UNIX BASICS -- SHELL PROGRAMMING -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 13: AppleScript and AppleScriptObjC -- APPLESCRIPT -- APPLESCRIPT APPLICATIONS -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 14: JavaScript, Dashboard, and Dashcode -- JAVASCRIPT -- DASHCODE -- SUMMARY -- Appendix A: Answers to Exercises -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- CHAPTER 6 -- CHAPTER 7 -- CHAPTER 8 -- CHAPTER 9 -- CHAPTER 10 -- CHAPTER 11 -- CHAPTER 12 -- CHAPTER 13 -- CHAPTER 14 -- Appendix B: Developer Resources -- WEB SITES -- MAILING LISTS -- OTHER RESOURCES -- Index.