Hi--
So I went to O¹Reilly and got the online version of Hillegass.
Here¹s from his introduction:
³This book is written for programmers who already know some C programming
and something about objects².
A bit later:
³Objective-C is a simple and elegant extension to C, and mastering it will
take about two hours -- if you already know C and an object-oriented
language like Java or C++².
And from Chapter One, no less:
³What is an object? An object is like a C struct ...².
At this point, I realized I would indeed need to go back to my beginner¹s C
tome.
So here¹s my point. C really isn¹t used in Cocoa and you only need the
concepts, so you probably shouldn¹t learn C. But if you don¹t learn C, you
can¹t learn Cocoa, because it assumes a knowledge of C.
Huh?
To me, there have got to be a bunch of folks here who could competently
write a great ³Cocoa For Dummies² book in a flash, which would include the
Objective-C we need, as well as the step by step Cocoa instruction at the
same time, help all of us stupid, inexperienced n00b¹s get into the most
exciting set of tools for Mac (I¹m very excited...), help the Mac community,
do good for all us Mac users by broadening the accessibility of our tools to
a wider audience and maybe make a hell of a lot of money, just as a bonus
for being so nice.
In fact, just an email book proposal to O¹ Reilly or some other such
Publisher, might even finance the whole endeavor.
Just my two cents, and we all know what two cents is worth these days, after
all.
Best,
Jonathan
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