Aaron Hillegass
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Aaron Hillegass (born 1969) is the author of Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, a popular introductory text for Cocoa developers, and the proprietor of the Big Nerd Ranch, a provider of Macintosh software developer training.
After working with the NEXTSTEP operating system as a university graduate, he developed NEXTSTEP application software for Wall Street. This led to teaching others how to develop software for NEXTSTEP and a job at NeXT. After the NeXT merger with Apple Computer, Hillegass left Apple to start his own dot-com business.[1]
However, he was then contacted by Apple to help train their software developers in the Cocoa application programming interface (API) that had evolved from the NEXTSTEP API. This experience led him to close down his dot-com business and focus on teaching Cocoa development and Cocoa consulting projects.[1]
[edit] Bibliography
- Aaron Hillegass (2008). Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X. Addison-Wesley. 3rd Edition (May 2008). ISBN 0-321-50361-9.
- Mark Dalrymple; Aaron Hillegass (2005). Advanced Mac OS X Programming. Big Nerd Ranch. 2nd Edition. ISBN 0-9740785-1-4.
- Aaron Hillegass (2004). Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X. Addison-Wesley. 2nd Edition. ISBN 0-321-21314-9.
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Interview with Aaron Hillegass from the Big Nerd Ranch, Atlanta.". MacGadget.de. February 24, 2005. http://www.macgadget.de/interviews/bignerdranch/bignerdranch-e.shtml. Retrieved 2006-05-20.
[edit] External links
- Big Nerd Ranch
- A collection of meditations on hope and fear by Aaron Hillegass
- A listing of the table of contents for his 2008 book cited above in the Bibliography
- 2008 Interview with Aaron Hillegass by Scott Stevenson
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