John Ray (3) (1971–)

This book is excellent for the Xcode beginner. I haven't so much as coded anything in about 10 years and wanted to write an app, and I'm certainly not a pro but at least now I know the basics and can figure out the rest with more advanced tutorials online. This book covers all of the basics of writing apps in iOS and walks you through them step-by-step. It also has introductory chapters on how to get set up as a developer, which is also important. The book also lets you know what other resources are available for bringing your apps to a higher level of complexity.… (altro)

This little gem of a book applies to Macbooks, Macbooks Pros, and Macbook Air computers. I have had my Macbook Pro for 3 years and and I can honestly say that learning my way around this amazing computer would have been faster and easier if I had this book as a resource at the beginning.

This book covers it all from opening to closing and in a clear, concise, very well illustrated way.I recently upgraded my software from Tiger to Snow Leopard and this book even helped with this. Although there is enough technical date in the book to satisfy a techy type I think that the book is also well done enough that it is easy for a rank beginner to be able to use and learn from. It's an excellent reference book that now lives close to my Macbook Pro. I can highly recommend this book… (altro)

This might be a good book for a power user, but for someone like me who just uses a Mac as a day-to-day machine and a slick front-end for a UNIX box, it's pretty useless: the user-friendliness of the OS X interface obviates owning a how-to book. There are some parts of the internals that remain obscure to me—for instance, the exact structure of the Applications folder, or certain XML system configuration files—and I keep this book around on the odd chance that I'll want to tweak them someday, but realistically I doubt I'll ever open it.… (altro)