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Asked: 2026-05-13T07:43:01+00:00

I have built some basic apps for iPhone and Mac with a general understanding

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I have built some basic apps for iPhone and Mac with a general understanding of Cocoa, but haven’t had a detailed understanding. Now I want to go deeper.

I have just finished the Objective-C documentation at MacDevCenter. It was great to get in-depth look but took far too much time, specially because a lot of it is conceptual, and it’s hard to build detailed examples to make use of the concepts.

Now I am on to Cocoa, but feel like it would be too much work to go through 250 page documents for Cocoa itself, then KVC, Cocoa Bindings, and Core Data.

Would I be better off at this stage picking up a good book on Cocoa (Hillegass’ is too sparse I think) or should I just bite the bullet and go through the docs?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Hillegass’ book will drive you to the free documentation every time he fails to make sense in order to be “funny” (i.e. every other paragraph) anyway, so unless you just want to give him $40, you will be much better off sticking to what Apple gives you au gratis. At the very least you won’t pick up any of his horrible UI design habits.

    You don’t really need to go through ALL the bindings and Core Data docs page by page–half of it is stuff you’ll likely never use. Knowing where to look for more information is far more valuable a skill than memorizing APIs.

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