Re: Hello, a book recommendation request, and a question
Re: Hello, a book recommendation request, and a question
- Subject: Re: Hello, a book recommendation request, and a question
- From: David Remahl <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 02:02:06 +0200
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Greetings,
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I'm very new to Cocoa development...like today new, having just
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completed the Currency Conversion Tutorial that came with Apple's dev
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tools.. =)
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I've been wanting to get back into programming for awhile now, and
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wanting to do what I can to support and get more people using OS X, so
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I've decided that Cocoa is the way I want to go, and now's the time to
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do it.
I couln't agree with you more!
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So, in order to avoid berating you with very stupid questions, and
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getting alot of RTFMs I'd like to get some opinions on what's are
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actually good and useful books for me to get. I'm looking at two books,
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currently, and was wondering if I should go with either, both, or some
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other book I haven't come across as yet. Specifically O'Reilly's
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"Learning Cocoa" and Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X (by Aaron
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Hillegas). They get alot of nice words said about them on Amazon, but I
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figured I'd get a second opinion here as well. Would getting both of
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them be pointless, and if so, which would be the better reference in the
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long run?
About 95% say Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X is the better book. I have
skimmed Hillegas book, and only browsed Learning Cocoa, and I do agree with
that. Learning Cocoa isn't a very good book while Cocoa Programming is
excellent.
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And the other question, is there any place where there are some
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guidelines for secure coding in Cocoa? Would normal C guidelines be
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appropriate, or are there special things I need to be on the lookout for?
Normal C guidelines are appropriate. Objective-C is only an extension to C,
so everything you knew before is still current. Then there are of course
additional security considerations that come with the use of Distributed
Objects and other systems of classes, but I don't know of any site that
discusses these issues specifically.
http://www.cocoadev.com/ is a great community site for discussing this type
of questions.
/ David Remahl
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Thanks in advance,
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Sincerely,
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Stephen Winson
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The Frontline Group
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