Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X (was: buy that new Book?)
Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X (was: buy that new Book?)
- Subject: Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X (was: buy that new Book?)
- From: Bill Bumgarner <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 15:42:41 -0500
I had the privilege of acting as a technical editor on Aaron Hillegas's
book +Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X+, so this certainly will be a biased
opinion.
In short, the book is awesome. Aaron's writing style and organization
are a bit different than most 'learning random API X' books -- namely, the
material is presented in a casual, almost conversational, style that is
very easy to understand.
Furthermore, the book is full of illustrations and example code. Unlike
most books, the goal of the examples is not to create some 'real world
feature', but to succinctly demonstrate whatever feature. As such, the
examples are extremely clear and to the point.
The book is extremely thorough in its coverage of the AppKit, the
Foundation, and ObjC.
Excellent book-- I highly recommend it to anyone new to Cocoa. As well,
a lot of 'old hands' will find the book quite useful -- in editing the
book, I both learned a bunch of things and found myself reevaluating a
number of subjects from a different perspective.
There will be several copies added to CodeFab's reference library shortly.
b.bum
On Tuesday, December 11, 2001, at 03:08 PM, email@hidden.
com wrote:
Message: 13
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 14:46:14 -0500 (EST)
From: Jake <email@hidden>
To: email@hidden
Subject: buy that new Book?
So with "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X" finally on the market.
What are the recommendations from the list? How does it compare to
Learning Cocoa? Is it a worthy buy? Can someone give a more comprehensive
review? Thanks
jake
b.bum
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