Cocoa Programming: A Quick-Start Guide for Developers shows you how to get productive with Cocoa-fast! We won't walk you through every class and method in the API (but we will show you where to find that information). Instead, we'll jump right in and start building a web browser using Cocoa. In just a few minutes you'll have something that works. A couple of minutes more, and you'll have code in your custom controller, listening for notifications and call-backs. Soon you'll have the functionality you'd expect in a full browser. And that's just the first few chapters...

As I finished up the final walk-through of our new house, a woman called to me from across the street. “Tonight’s our annual progressive dinner,” she shouted. “Come meet the neighborhood.”

I followed along and met our new neighbors all at once. It went fast and was a bit overwhelming, and there was a ton of information, some of which I was able to sort out later. Mostly, it made me feel a lot better about my new neighborhood. I knew the questions to ask, and I had met the people who could answer them for me.

That’s the goal in this book. It’s not a guide for tourists that lists the things you’d want to see if you were only going to live with Cocoa for a day. It’s not a comprehensive almanac that lists every API class by class and method by method. This is designed to get you through those first weeks and months of moving to Cocoa.

This is the coding equivalent of finding out where to go for coffee, which streets are safe to walk on at night, and which teacher to request for your kids. Once you get a feel for the neighborhood, you’ll have more questions, but you’ll know where and how to get them answered.