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Re: New to Objective-C/Cocoa Programming
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Re: New to Objective-C/Cocoa Programming


  • Subject: Re: New to Objective-C/Cocoa Programming
  • From: James Duncan Davidson <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:07:13 -0800

On Feb 23, 2004, at 09:28, Scott Anguish wrote:

Well, it's true that you don't need to know C to get started, I think an understanding of it is crucial to making real headway.

The real trick is knowing which parts of C you need to know (syntax, structs, *'s, & thingies, preprocessor, and what not) and what you don't need to know (a lot of the standard library--most of which is replaced by nice things in Cocoa, but a bit of which is still useful to know).

Stephen Kochan's book, "Programming in Objective-C", hits these kind of things while at the same time introducing the language which is nice as all the previous intro Cocoa books (mine included) have just said "Know C". I've only skimmed Stephen's book so far, but it looks pretty decent.

Apple's Cocoa docs are much better than they were, and we're striving to make them better every day.

Also, having this nice set of docs at your fingertips while coding in Xcode (via the documentation viewer) is a great boon.
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 >New to Objective-C/Cocoa Programming (From: Thomas Roberts <email@hidden>)
 >Re: New to Objective-C/Cocoa Programming (From: Scott Anguish <email@hidden>)
 >Re: New to Objective-C/Cocoa Programming (From: Jeremy Dronfield <email@hidden>)
 >Re: New to Objective-C/Cocoa Programming (From: Scott Anguish <email@hidden>)

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