RE: Mac OS X Developer's Guide - another opinion
RE: Mac OS X Developer's Guide - another opinion
- Subject: RE: Mac OS X Developer's Guide - another opinion
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 10:52:14 -0000
So, would it be fair to say then that despite the not quite rave reviews in
this list for both books, that an experienced C++ developer who's not from
'Macintosh World' could use them both together to get a pretty good insight
to application development in Cocoa for OS-X?
Alun Carp
Driver Development Team Leader
Data Encryption Systems Limited
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From: Donald Brown
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Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2001 10:33 AM
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To: Smith, Bradley; Cocoa dev
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Subject: Re: Mac OS X Developer's Guide - another opinion
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Being in that position, I'd say, worth getting, but one of the problems is
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figuring out the duplication. I do find that it explains the why a bit
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more, but it has some major gaps too.
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Donald
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on 11/8/2001 4:20 AM, Smith, Bradley at email@hidden wrote:
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> Interesting. How much use would it be to an experience C++'er, just
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moved to
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> OS X and heas read and digested 'Learning Cocoa'?
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> Brad
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>> My feeling is that it's being vilified for much the same reason
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>> "Learning Cocoa" was tarred and feathered -- it states a lot of stuff
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>> that people on this list (or other Mac programmers) know.
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>> There's basic
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>> remedial stuff, such as a very even and lucid comparison of
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>> Java, Obj-C
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>> and C++ (not just syntax...it talks about things like mix-ins,
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>> delegation, fragile base classes in C++, etc.). It talks about the
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>> evolution of OS X and things like CFM vs. Mach-O.
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Donald Brown
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