Re: Learning Cocoa Book - the problem
Re: Learning Cocoa Book - the problem
- Subject: Re: Learning Cocoa Book - the problem
- From: David P Henderson <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 16:49:39 -0400
On Friday, June 1, 2001, at 11:11 , Eric Doggett wrote:
The problem I see with the book is that while the examples are good, the
book simply lists code for you to type in, and it haphazardly/rarely
describes to you what the code means. It will say something like "now we
need to provide an initWithCoder method".. well why not talk about how
that
gets called, etc., or list some of the object methods you are calling
with a
definition?
My C is experience is limited (mostly vb/oracle/web), but after I
understood
the syntax of ObjC I spent more time looking at the book code, typing
it in,
and then cursing because there's no follow up!
Try the following out for size:
ftp://ftp.apple.com/developer/macosxserver/Training/
The stuff in the directory was written for Rhapsody/YellowBox and you
will need to be able to compensate for changes in API(minimal) and
tools. Some of the discussed items are no longer applicable, but the
RDR_PYB_Book does a decent job of explaining, memory management,
notification, delegation, archiving, nib files, et al. And you aren't
regurgitating code from the book for the examples.
Dave
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