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Discover how to build desktop applications for the Mac by exploring the many frameworks and essential design patterns in Cocoa. Author Simon Allardice shows you how to create a better-looking user interface that works on multiple screen sizes with Mac OS X Lion. The course also demonstrates how to use the Cocoa frameworks to build several example applications, and reinforces the best practices to build apps and get them ready for the Mac App Store.
Topics include:

    Installing the tools
    Creating your first app
    Adding basic interactions
    Understanding the Cocoa application life cycle
    Creating custom controller classes
    Creating alerts
    Understanding delegation
    Working with buttons, text fields, sliders, and more
    Using layout and data views
    Adding and editing toolbars
    Using key-value coding
    Binding objects
    Debugging code
    Distributing an application
    Creating icons and full-screen apps