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Programming Cocoa with Ruby

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It’s simple, really: if you like Ruby and you like Macs and you want to put the two together, this book is for you. After you read through it...wait, scratch that—after you work through it, you’ll be able to build nice, Mac-like apps. You’ll have the memory of doing, at least once, many of the tasks that make up building a Mac app. Your life will have much less of the “What do I do now?” frustration that sinks so many first attempts to use a big and complicated framework.
I endured that frustration for you. When I started writing the book, I knew practically nothing about coding Mac GUI apps (in Ruby or any other language). I learned how in my usual way: by diving into coding something too ambitious. As always happens, I spent much of my time blundering down blind alleys, staring at app crashes and weird behaviors, figuring out what pieces of the conceptual puzzle I was missing, searching for them in vast masses of documentation, and revisiting old code in the light of new understanding. The only difference was that after I figured something out, I wrote a new chapter about what I’d done and what I’d learned—except that I removed most of the frustration from the story line. When I had to backtrack because I didn’t know something, I wrote that something into the story just when I would have needed it. The result is what Imre Lakatos, the philosopher of science, called a rational reconstruction of history: follow the book, and I think you’ll get pretty much the experience I should have had.

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: ., 2009

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1-387

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English

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978-1-934356-19-7

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Programming Cocoa with Ruby

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