CocoaBooks

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Here's a list of published (or soon to be) books on Cocoa Programming. If you have an opinion, please VOTE* on each book! Books appear in ALPHABETICAL order. If you know of any other books please add them this list. If you know of any additional links on where to purchase the books feel free to add those as well. Don't pay too much attention to the List Price as online book retaillers will often sell the book for much less than this. You might even get lucky and be able to snag a copy for cheap off of eBay if you put a little effort into searching for it. --> K. McClanahan

*About the voting section:

Votes must be entered on the individual book's page. The categories are:

  • BUY IT - You need this book in your library. Pronto! apologies to whoever wrote "Prompto" if they intended that.
  • BORROW IT - Some useful material, but overall it may not be worth your hard earned cash. But look for it on eBay any how.
  • BURY IT - BURN it, BLISTER it, BREACH it; --Just don't BOTHER with it 'cause it BITES!

Only books that focus on Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X are listed below. For other useful programming books, check out the OtherBooks page...

  • BookBecomeAnXCoder - Votes: BUY IT: [4], BORROW IT: [], BURY IT: [] 
     image Become An Xcoder (March 2006, Free) 
     

  •  BookBeginningMacOSXProgramming - Votes: BUY IT: [2], BORROW IT: [], BURY IT: [] 
     image Beginning Mac OS X Programming (July 2005, $39.99) 
     

  •  BookBeginningXcode - Votes: BUY IT: [], BORROW IT: [], BURY IT: [] 
     image Beginning Xcode (April 2006, $39.99) 
     

  •  BookBuildingCocoaApplications - Votes: BUY IT: [15], BORROW IT: [9], BURY IT: [1] 
     image Building Cocoa Applications : A Step by Step Guide (May 2002, $44.95) 
     

  •  BookCocoaGameProgrammingWorkshop - Votes: BUY IT: [2], BORROW IT: [], BURY IT: [1] 
     image Cocoa Game Programming Workshop (Feb 2005, $9.95) 
     

  •  BookCocoaInANutshell - Votes: BUY IT: [7], BORROW IT: [0], BURY IT: [1] 
     image Cocoa in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference (May 2003, $39.95 US) 
     

  •  BookCocoaProgDummies - Votes: BUY IT: [0], BORROW IT: [3], BURY IT: [0] 
     image Cocoa Programming For Dummies (Mar 2003, $29.99) 
     

  •  BookCocoaProgMacOSX - Votes: BUY IT: [62], BORROW IT: [2], BURY IT: [0] 
     image image Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X ($49.99 - Second edition) 
     

  •  BookCocoaProgramming - Votes: BUY IT: [24], BORROW IT: [1], BURY IT: [1] 
     image Cocoa Programming (Sep 2002, $59.99) 
     

  •  BookCocoaRecipes - Votes: BUY IT: [8], BORROW IT: [1], BURY IT: [2], BURN IT: [2] 
     image Cocoa Recipes for Mac OS X (Nov 2002, $44.99) 
     

  •  BookCoreMacOSXandUnix - Votes: BUY IT: [10], BORROW IT: [0], BURY IT: [0]
    image Advanced Mac OS X Programming ($69.99)
    

  •  BookHackingMacOSXTiger - Votes: BUY IT: [1], BORROW IT: [0], BURY IT: [0] 
     image Hacking Mac OS X Tiger (July 2005, $19.99) 
     

  •  BookLearningCocoa - Votes: BUY IT: [4], BORROW IT: [10], BURY IT: [10] 
     image Learning Cocoa (June 2001, $34.95) 
     

  •  BookLearningCocoaObjCSecond - Votes: BUY IT: [5], BORROW IT: [4], BURY IT: [1] 
     image Learning Cocoa With Objective C, 2nd Edition (Sep 2002, $34.95) 
     

  •  BookMacOSXADT - Votes: BUY IT: [3], BORROW IT: [2], BURY IT: [0] 
     image Mac OS X Advanced Development Techniques (April 2003, as low as $31.49) 
     

  •  BookMacOSXDevGuide - Votes: BUY IT: [1], BORROW IT: [5], BURY IT: [7] 
     image Mac OS X Developer's Guide (Oct 2001, $49.95) 
     

  •  BookMacOSXPantherForUnixGeeks - Votes: BUY IT: [1], BORROW IT: [0], BURY IT: [0]
    image Mac OS X Panther for  Unix Geeks ($24.95)
    

  •  BookObjCPocketReference - Votes: BUY IT: [6], BORROW IT: [], BURY IT: [] 
    image Objective-C Pocket Reference (December 2002, $9.95) 
     

  •  BookOpenGLProgramming - Votes: BUY IT: [], BORROW IT: [], BURY IT: [] 
     image OpenGL Programming on Mac OS X 
     

  •  BookProgInObjC - Votes: BEST BUY: [2], BUY IT: [10], BORROW IT: [], BURY IT: [] 
     image Programming in Objective-C (Jan 2004, $34.99)  
    

  •  BookTeachYourselfCocoaTouchProgramming - Votes: BEST BUY: [], BUY IT: [], BORROW IT: [], BURY IT: [] 
     image Sams Teach Yourself Cocoa Touch Programming in 24 Hours (Nov 2009, $39.99) 
    

  •  BookTheMacXcodeTwoBook - Votes: BUY IT: [2], BORROW IT: [2], BURY IT: [1] 
     image The Mac Xcode 2 Book (Jun 2005, $29.99) 
     

  •  BookXcodeToolsSensei - Votes: BUY IT: [1], BORROW IT: [0], BURY IT: [0] 
     image Xcode Tools Sensei (August 2005, $35 print or $20 electronic) 
     








Be sure to also check out the CocoaResources and CocoaTutorials sections on this web site for more reference material.


*Once Again...  About the List Prices:



    

  • This is the book's suggested retail price.  But take this with a grain of salt for you will often find that the book is sold up to 20% to 30% less on Amazon or Barnes and Noble and you might even search Ebay for used copies at a fraction of the list price. 

 


Check out the books that have been published in Japanese:
http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/4877780890/250-6668802-8168269