Learning Cocoa
Learning Cocoa
- Subject: Learning Cocoa
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 14:13:12 -0400
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