Learn C on the Mac (Learn Series)

Considered a classic by an entire generation of Mac programmers, this popular guide has been completely updated for Mac OS X. Don?t know anything about programming? No problem! Acclaimed author Dave Mark starts out with the basics and takes you through a complete course in programming C using Apple?s free Xcode tools. This book is perfect for beginners learning to program. It includes all?new Mac OS X examples!

Provides best practices for programming newbies Written by the expert on C?programming for the Mac Presents all the basics with a pragmatic, Mac OS X-flavored approach
What you?ll learn Master C programming, the gateway to programming your Mac or iPhone. Write applications for the Mac OS X interface, the cleanest user interface around. Understand variables and how to design your own data structures. Work with the file system. Connect to data sources and the Internet.
Who is this book for

For anyone wanting to learn to program in Mac OS X, including developers new to the Mac, developers new to C, or students entirely new to programming. For anyone who wants to learn how to program their iPhone, this is also the core language primer.

User review
The Gentleman who Gently teaches you C !
As someone who has never programmed on the Mac or in C, I found this book to be a godsend. The author starts with the preliminary steps for getting started with Xcode on the Mac, and then takes you across to the language itself. I liked the engaging and simple style in which it is written. To a newcomer to C, even a simple `hello World` program in C appears terrifying as it is always surrounded by a host of arcane statements that make no sense. The author tackles this situation in a pedagogically sound manner. The author gets the reader to focus on the central concepts that matter in the program code rather than all the distracting details. The book builds up gradually and gives you a solid platform for going on to Objective C. Highly recommended. Thanks form a grateful programmer !

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Very very simple and good!
Very Good Book simple and easy also good for who konws C and need some abount Mac world and Xcode. Simple English good for strangers

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One of the best iPhone Books
We at the iPhone Boot Camp [,,.]have three day intensive workshops in iPhone development in eleven cities.

We selected this book as recommended reading material to prepare the students for the workshop. We've read all the book on the subject and feel this book is one of the best ones out there in the marketplace. The authors explain how to develop for the iPhone in very clear terms and it's helped our students learn some challenging programming concepts. With the right preparation for the workshops such as reading this book and the workshops themselves with hand on training, exercises and lots of Q & A with the instructors, all longtime Mac developers our students have been able to develop their own apps for the iPhone store

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Very Good Intro to C
Even though this book is C `on the mac` it's a great intro to the C language regardless of the platform. You can use this book to learn C on windows or Linux as well.
The book is very clear and forward in the concepts and teaches them in a easy to understand way. This was the best intro to C that I've ever read. I highly recommend it.

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Short and sweet!
I had read that using `Learn Objective-C on the Mac` required some experience with C, so I read this first. I had used C ever so briefly in an intro to programming class in engineering school back in the mid 90's.

If you have any programming experience, it may be just a tad too basic. I've been programming heavily in recent years in VB.Net, C#, Matlab, and Fortran. For me, learn C provided the syntax variations I needed, but added nothing new to my understanding of programming concepts. I would've liked more in depth programming examples that made use of lesser known concepts, but I can't complain too much as I understood it was a beginner book going in. I actually breezed through all 300+ pages in 5 days.

`Learn C on the Mac` would be an excellent book for any beginning programmer. It is clear, concise, and to the point. It also may be good for any Windows developer moving to Mac as it does provide some basic information about XCode.