Re: Objective C Books?
Re: Objective C Books?
- Subject: Re: Objective C Books?
- From: Joe Muscara <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 20:34:41 -0500
Hi,
I've been lurking on the list for a little while now, and I thought I
take the time to answer this easy one. It seems the right info on this
question hasn't gotten to the list, exactly.
"Object-Oriented Programming and the Objective-C Language" sounds like
the book the original poster was looking for about learning Objective-C.
It was originally published by NeXT (I know for sure as I bought a copy
from them shortly after Apple bought NeXT. It's sitting right next to me
as I write this). Apple has rewritten it somewhat, and the new version
is available from the print-on-demand arrangement they have with
Fatbrain. The biggest change in the new version appears to be a new
chapter called "Object Ownership and Automatic Disposal" that is about
memory management. It's also available as a PDF from Apple, as someone
else mentioned.
"Learning Cocoa" appears to be a major rewrite of "Discovering Openstep:
A Developer Tutorial." Until recently, it was fairly easy to find a PDF
of Discovering Openstep at the Apple Developer Documentation site under
the "Legacy" category. At the moment, I don't see it.
Together, these are two great texts for getting started with Cocoa. In
fact, it appears that the NeXT versions remain rather usable. Still, I
plan to check out "Learning Cocoa" ASAP to see if it warrants replacing
my printout of Discovering Openstep.
As far as "Object-oriented Programming, An Evolutionary Approach,"
bn.com lists it as out of stock. I assume that means it is no longer in
print. I've never read it myself.
I hope this helps.
Joe