Re: Confusing array of Apple Obj-C books at Vervante...
Re: Confusing array of Apple Obj-C books at Vervante...
- Subject: Re: Confusing array of Apple Obj-C books at Vervante...
- From: Ken Tabb <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 11:14:43 +0100
Ignore that last message, I'm so stupid!
Looking at the "What's New" part of the Cocoa site:
May 2002
Objective-C Programming Language (PDF)
This book defines the Objective-C language as implemented by the Apple
compilers and used in the Cocoa application frameworks. The second
edition adds a reference for the Objective-C runtime library functions
and data structures and documents the Objective-C++ compiler. All new
Cocoa developers should read this book.
So it's the new version of the same book, although this isn't made
incredibly clear on the Vervante site (and why is it still offering the
1st edition if it's a print on demand service... there can't be a
stockpile to get rid of surely?)
Thanks for humouring me,
Ken
On Wednesday, May 22, 2002, at 11:04 am, Ken Tabb wrote:
Hi,
I was just looking at the vervante book site for hard copy ADC docs on
Quartz when I glanced at the Cocoa area:
http://catalog.vervante.com/browseGroup.cfm?item_group_id=61319
... and I noticed that alongside the "Object Oriented Programming and
the Objective-C language" book (which we all know and love), there is
now also a 228 page "The Objective-C Language", which costs twice as
much. It's been published more recently (May 2002), and I was wondering
what it offers that the former book doesn't, apart from Obj-C++
coverage (which seems odd to have as the addition, bearing in mind the
book's title) and also the functions for interacting with the runtime
system. The vervante site seems to have scant info on which you'd want
to use. I'm assuming that the new one has all the old info + new stuff,
but I have no evidence to substantiate that claim. It's also hard to
see why the 32 extra pages on top of the initial 196 pages warrants a
100% price increase, but maybe that was Vervante's decision and not
Apple's? Or maybe those pages are really really well written 8^)
So if anyone has read both tomes and knows the difference between them,
could they shout?
Thanks in advance,
Ken
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Ken Tabb
Mac & UNIX Technical bloke (C, C++, Obj-C, Java) - Health & Human
Sciences
Machine Vision & Neural Network researcher - Computer Science Dept
University of Hertfordshire, UK
http://www.health.herts.ac.uk/ken/
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