Re: Learning to program Cocoa
Re: Learning to program Cocoa
- Subject: Re: Learning to program Cocoa
- From: Jonathan Hendry <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 13:00:06 -0500
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 it's available on the web, free.
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.
I couldn't get past Squeak's excessively twee environment.