Scott Knaster

Scott Knaster is an American technical writer who has written many books, mostly dealing with Macintosh programming and using the Macintosh. He has worked for such companies as Apple Inc., General Magic, Microsoft, Danger Inc., and Google.

Knaster's first books on Macintosh programming in the late 1980s and early 1990s were considered required reading for Macintosh programmers for many years.

In addition to writing books, Knaster writes for several periodicals and web sites including Macworld, MacTech, and O'Reilly Media's Mac Dev Center.

Knaster is a regular speaker at Macworld Expo, MacHack (until it ended), and sits on the panel of Apple's Stump the Experts.

List of books written by Scott Knaster

 * Cooking with Hypertalk 2.0
 * How to Write Macintosh Software: The Debugging Reference for Macintosh (2nd edition: 1988, ISBN 978-0672484292; 3rd edition: 1992, ISBN 978-0201608052)
 * Macintosh Programming Secrets (1st edition: 1988) (2nd edition: 1992, ISBN 978-0201581348)
 * Presenting Magic Cap
 * Macworld Discover Internet Explorer 3 (1997, ISBN 978-0764540318)
 * MSN the Everyday Web (2001, ISBN 978-0735611405)
 * Mac Toys: 12 Cool Projects for Home, Office, and Entertainment (2004, ISBN 978-0764543517)
 * Hacking iPod and iTunes (2004, ISBN 978-0764569845)
 * Hacking Mac OS X Tiger: Serious Hacks, Mods and Customizations (2005, ISBN 978-0764583452)
 * Take Control of Switching to the Mac (2008, ISBN 9781933671048)
 * Learn Objective-C on the Mac (2008, ISBN 978-1430218159)

Knaster was also the series editor for Addison-Wesley’s Macintosh Inside Out, a collection of 19 technical books published over a 3-year period in the 1990s.