And pointers because cocoa and obj-c use a lot of pointers.
Yes and no. You definitely need to understand what a pointer is
(well, you can do Cocoa even without this knowledge, but I very
strongly discommend that).
OTOH, as a beginner you really don't need to understand many of the
pointer subtleties, namely you don't need to grasp the pointer
arithmetic and the link betwixt pointer and C-arrays: for beginners
this tends to be comparatively difficult, and you don't need either
in Cocoa.
Of course, one *should* learn these things, definitely one *should*!
But it can wait. In a sense, grasping the Interface Builder basics is
more important :)
And without any irony, grasping the object/class/instance and message/
method model is ***infinitely*** more important than being able to
place "const" properly in a pointer declaration :)
Leave C++ books where is now:under the table :)
Unopened. The benefit of learning C++ (for someone who want to
understand Cocoa) is not zilch, it is negative.
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