Re: Cocoa programming book question
Re: Cocoa programming book question
- Subject: Re: Cocoa programming book question
- From: Phillip Morelock <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 13:36:29 -0700
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I agree about "Learning Cocoa", I didn't think it was that great. I
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have the Garfunkel & Mahoney book and like it much better. I haven't
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seen the Hillegas, book so I can't comment on it...
I can. Aaron Hillegass is my hero.
Especially with the hat.
Seriously, though, if you are a Java or C-- (^h^h ++) programmer, the
Hillegass book is excellent because it reallly shows you how very different
Object Orientation is in Obj-C / Cocoa from other, more "traditional" OO
languages. I did not "get" cocoa until about chapter 5 of Aaron's book, and
the light just came on, due to some very apt analogies on his part (knight
rider vs. robocop comes to mind...).
I am a "newbie" who has a lot of OO experience and I found that Aaron's book
was the only way I was going to grok the whole cocoa runtime funk.
cheers
fillup
On 6/3/02 12:51 PM, "Michael George" <email@hidden> wrote:
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On Saturday, June 1, 2002, at 08:52 PM, Jonathan Jackel wrote:
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> I found Aaron's book to be more helpful and a more fun read to boot.
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> "Building" is OK. It tends to try to be more exhaustive, and that can
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> make
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> it slower going. Aaron's approach is to learn just enought to
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> accomplish
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> the tasks in his book.
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> I haven't gone through "Building" completely, but there's a lot of
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> overlap
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> with "Cocoa Programming". Neither book is really a reference book, but
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> the
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> online help with the developer tools is very extensive.
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> Don't buy O'Reilly's "Learning Cocoa". It's a very distant third.
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I agree about "Learning Cocoa", I didn't think it was that great. I
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have the Garfunkel & Mahoney book and like it much better. I haven't
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seen the Hillegas, book so I can't comment on it...
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-Michael George
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Senior Engineer, Software Development
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Aurora Video Systems, Inc.
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