Acknowledgments

Creating this book required the efforts of many people. We want to thank them for their help. Their contributions have made this a better book than we could have ever written alone.

Thanks to the students who took the Cocoa programming course at the Big Nerd Ranch. They helped us work the kinks out of the exercises and explanations that appear here. Their curiosity inspired us to make the book more comprehensive, and their patience made it possible.

Thank you to all the readers of the first three editions, who made such great suggestions on our forums (http://forums.bignerdranch.com/).

Thank you to all the instructors at the Ranch, who made great additions and caught many of our most egregious errors.

A final shout out to the people at Addison-Wesley, who took our manuscript and made it into a book. They put the book on trucks and convinced bookstores to put it on the shelves. Without their help, it would still be just a stack of paper.