Re: High-level overview of Cocoa - thoughts from a newbie
Re: High-level overview of Cocoa - thoughts from a newbie
- Subject: Re: High-level overview of Cocoa - thoughts from a newbie
- From: Carlos Weber <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 21:11:36 -1000
On Monday, November 12, 2001, at 08:15 , Mario Diana wrote:
The big difference that any new book should have would be the approach.
The book should immediately, after a basic syntax introduction, jump
into using the libraries and Interface Builder. Teach a beginner to
construct a simple interface for input and output (a couple of
windows), and then get him or her writing in Objective-C all the
"compute prime numbers" toy programs. While doing this, NSArray,
NSDictionary and all the other data structures and so forth could be
introduced and explored. Along the way, a person could be introduced to
the skills needed to understand how documentation is organized, and how
to use it. (This is a lot less obvious than understanding "index out of
range" errors.)
It's not a book, but the "Vermont Recipes" series of tutorials, written
by Bill Cheeseman and available at www.stepwise.com, comes very close to
filling your prescription. It certainly got me writing Cocoa code faster
than anything else available at the time. Thanks again, Bill!