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Steve Kochan

Kochan

Objective-C Bootcamp Instructor Stephen Kochan is the author and coauthor of several bestselling titles on the C language, including Programming in C, Programming in ANSI C, and Topics in C Programming, and several UNIX titles, including Exploring the UNIX System and UNIX Shell Programming. He has been programming on Macintosh computers since the introduction of the first Mac in 1984 and wrote Programming in C for the Mac as part of the Apple Press Library. More recently, he wrote an introductory book on the Objective-C language called Programming in Objective-C. His latest book, Beginning AppleScript, was just released by Wiley publishing as part of their Wrox programmer-to-programmer series.

In addition to writing, Mr. Kochan also spent several years teaching UNIX and C classes at AT&T Bell Laboratories and holding various programming positions in the industry. In 1985 he started his own software company called Pipeline Associates, Inc., which he sold in 1997.

Books by Steve Kochan