Re: Learning to program Cocoa
Re: Learning to program Cocoa
- Subject: Re: Learning to program Cocoa
- From: Chris Gehlker <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 10:18:08 -0700
On 8/27/01 3:54 PM, "Stephen Heward" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Can anyone make any suggestions on the best way of learning to program
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for the Mac.
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I am fairly new to programming on the Mac. I have very limited
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programming experiences
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My history of programming consists of Turbo Pascal, Turing and Q-basic
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on the PC.
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It has been sometime. I am very eager to get back into programming
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though.
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OOP is new to me. Are there any books on Objective C that anyone can
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recommend? I definately would like to program for Cocoa.
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There just aren't any good Cocoa/ObjC books yet.
So there are three challenges in front of you.
1) Learn C syntax
2) Learn OOP techniques.
3) Learn Cocoa
As others have pointed out, Java can access the Cocoa frameworks, it is
syntactically similar to C and it supports OOP. So until there is a Cocoa
book out you are probably better off with a good Java book and a C reference
to cover the differences. "Thinking in Java" is a well regarded Java book
and K&R is the standard C book. ("Harbinson & Steele" is probably a better
pure reference book but start with K&R.)
Someone is going to say, "go DL Squeak and learn Smalltalk to really get
OOP." They will be right. You will program better in any OOP language for a
little exposure to Smalltalk.
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