Re: Objective C Books?
Re: Objective C Books?
- Subject: Re: Objective C Books?
- From: Dan White <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 09:09:31 -0400
At 8:34 PM -0500 5/22/01, Joe Muscara wrote:
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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.
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"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.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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I managed to snag a copy of the Brian Cox book (Evolutionary Approach) and I must say that it is only of limited use. The terminology is a bit dated and it has nothing regarding the Cocoa API.
My first impressions of Objective C are similar to my impressions of Java -- the language syntax is dirt simple but you need to study the API to figure out what to do and how to do it.
I'm looking forward to the O'Reilly book as well.
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