Re: Learning Cocoa Book - the problem
Re: Learning Cocoa Book - the problem
- Subject: Re: Learning Cocoa Book - the problem
- From: Michael Dagate <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 09:21:09 -0500
Vermont Recipes rocks! I completed all the recipes available so far, and
they made a huge difference for me.
Previously, I read all the pertinent Apple documentation. I recommend
the following for newbies:
1. Inside Cocoa: Object-Oriented Programming and the Objective-C
Language (ObjC.pdf)
2. Inside Mac OS X: System Overview (SystemOverview.pdf)
3. Introduction to Foundation (IntroFoundation.html)
4. Introduction to the Application Kit (IntroAppKit.html)
5. Inside Mac OS X: Aqua Human Interface Guidelines
(AquaHIGuidelines.pdf)
6. Application Design for Scripting, Documents, and Undo
(AppDesign.pdf) - pay special attention to MVC
7. API references, as needed
While these documents are a great place to start and loaded with
information, VR pulled it all together.
Michael
On Saturday, June 2, 2001, at 07:45 AM, Bill Cheeseman wrote:
on 6/1/01 3:29 PM, Matt Judy at email@hidden wrote:
But the problem is that *all* Cocoa books seem to be written this
way. I
believe it is
because once you've reached the point where you are skilled enough to
write a
book about
Cocoa, it's very difficult to remember what it was like to be a
beginner.
Maybe what we
need is for a beginner to write a Cocoa book, starting from day one and
explaining what
he/she learns over time from all these books and from others, a diary
which
distills and
translates the various resources into a book that advances with the
beginning
Cocoa programmer.
This is exactly what Vermont Recipes does. And it's already long enough
to
be called a "book," although I have much more to write.
--
Bill Cheeseman - email@hidden
Quechee Software, Quechee, Vermont, USA
The AppleScript Sourcebook - www.AppleScriptSourcebook.com
Vermont Recipes - www.stepwise.com/Articles/VermontRecipes
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