The Mac Xcode 2 Book reviewed by Robert Pritchett 

Authors: Michael Cohen  

Dennis Cohen 

Andy Ihnatko 

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Wiley Developed for the Apple Community Series 

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Released: June 2005 

Pages: 350 

$30 USD $39 CND  19 GBP   Euro 

ISBN: 0764584111 

For Mac coding wannabees. 

Strengths: Well written with a healthy dose of humor.  

Weaknesses: A couple of typos. 

The Mac Xcode 2 Book by Michael and Dennis Cohen and Andy Ihnatko take a fun approach to 

learning how Mac Xcode 2 is designed. The authors were told to make it fun to learn and I think 

they did a magnificent job doing so. 

What? You don't know Xcode? That's okay. Learn it here. Crash course, but not un 

understandable. If all learning were this easy, we wouldn't need schools. 

These guys show how drop dead easy it is to  program  now with XCode 2. Literally anybody 

can do it and they show how.  

Will you be able to code after reading this book? Sure! There are 6 parts on the IDE of the Tiger, 

Coding, Dragging and Dropping, Building and maybe running Carbon, Cocoa, Java and 

AppleScript, Cat herding and Fleabaths by debugging, optimizing and using version control and 

of course, 2 Appendices on SDKs and migrating from CodeWarrior and other projects. 

I bookmarked the heck out of this book and you will too. These guys are great at making 

learning fun again. 

  MPN, LLC 2005 macCompanion 

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August 2005, Volume 3 Issue 8