Re: Cocoa Books (was New to Cocoa)
Re: Cocoa Books (was New to Cocoa)
- Subject: Re: Cocoa Books (was New to Cocoa)
- From: Charles Bouldin <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 17:49:19 -0400
At 1:41 PM -0700 10/11/02, email@hidden wrote:
"Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X" by Aaron Hillegass is a really good
book. If you have some experience as a programmer, I still think that
my book is what will help you understand the ideas behind Cocoa. It is
not a reference, and it is not an advanced book. Many kind folks have
written nice things about the book on this mailing list.
"Cocoa Programming" by Anguish, Buck, and Yachtman is the perfect
complement to my book. All the introductory-level topics that didn't
make it into my book are in this one. It is well written by very
knowledgeable authors. If you want to write Cocoa code, you should
own this book and mine. (But, gosh, I wish they had chosen a
different title.)
Having been through Aaron's course and hence his book, I agree with
this assessment. The books I would recommend are the two books with
almost the same title :). I differ slightly with Aaron in that I
think "Building Cocoa Applications" is also pretty good, but then I
am a beginner and appreciate seeing all the application development
steps in such detail. Haven't yet seen
"Learning Cocoa with Objective C".
Also, having been to the "ranch", I recommend Aaron's course on cocoa
programming very highly. I arrived as a rank novice (no object
oriented programming experience, only modest knowledge of C) and
*still* got a lot out of the course. The parts on opengl and using
unix processes from cocoa were particularly useful to me.
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