Re: Re: Cocoa Book
Re: Re: Cocoa Book
- Subject: Re: Re: Cocoa Book
- From: Jeff Szuhay <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:09:12 -0500
Is the concensus that Aarons book is still the best?
There is no "best" book. Learning Cocoa (or anything for that matter)
is a journey.
You try to find a book that fits where are and go from there.
Be aware that there are 4 kinds of books for learning:
Tutorials (Aaron's books is one of these)
General Discussion/Overview (the Apple Objective C book/pdf is one of these)
References (Anguish, Beck, Yacktman is one of these)
"Cookbooks" -- typically filled with code examples (Vermont
Recipies is one of these)
Right now there appear to be some very good (even if a small
selection) in each of
these categories.
Also, a good working rule for tutorials and overviews is that the
thicker the book, the less
valuable it is. For reference and cookbooks, the opposite is
_usually_ true, but not always.
Some of the best reference books are in several volumes, like Apples
Inside Macintosh,
Graphics Gems, Games Programming Gems, etc.
Search the archives for discussions about the others.
(I'd list them here, but my library is at home, not at work where I
currently am).
jeff Sz.
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