Re: Learning Cocoa
Re: Learning Cocoa
- Subject: Re: Learning Cocoa
- From: Russell Ahrens <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 23:00:07 -0400
I'm actually quite happy with the Learning Cocoa book. While I, too,
was a little underwhelmed by the Hello World and Currency Converter, it
picks up quickly. In addition, it is one of the few "type in the
example" books which does a pretty good job of explaining and of
teaching through example -- I especially like how there are certain
methods that it describes, but leaves it up to the reader to digest and
generate the code.
All in all, I think that it is one of the most effective intro to an
API-type books I have read. Stick with it; it does pick up.
Russell Ahrens
Oink Industries
On Thursday, May 31, 2001, at 02:13 PM, email@hidden wrote:
Any other "Newbies" here who are as disappointed with the long-awaited
"Learning Cocoa" book from O'Reilly as I am? Or not so new, for that
matter. What I've seen so far--Chapter One--is little more than a
"Reader's Digest" version of "Object-Oriented Programming and the
Objective-C Language." Indeed, this shortened version is nothing but
sales hype, on-and-on about how great Cocoa is. HELLO, APPLE: I went
into debt to buy a G4, and spent hundreds more for books and ADC
mailings-- just to do Cocoa. More to the point: I bought THIS bloody
book, so why the hell are you still trying to sell it to me? I
understand the power of Cocoa, I'm already a BIG fan. Now, how the
#@$%*# do I go about really learning how to use it? Oh, wait, now I
see the ever-popular "Hello World" and "Currency Converter" coming up
fast. Sorry, been there, done that. I hope to hell the second half
has something truly valuable in it, or this book is going to have to be
renamed "Learning Cocoa, NOT".
Brian E. Howard
Cocoa Cult Headquarters
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