Re: Cocoa Books (was New to Cocoa)
Re: Cocoa Books (was New to Cocoa)
- Subject: Re: Cocoa Books (was New to Cocoa)
- From: Paul Ferguson <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 11:12:27 -0700
On Friday, October 11, 2002, at 12:12 PM, Aaron Hillegass wrote:
"Learning Cocoa" (first edition) was a terrible book. It had been
written by committee and it showed. O'Reilly published this simply to
be first to market, and I hope they are ashamed to have taken money
from people who trusted the O'Reilly name and forked over cash for it.
It may be the worst book ever written, but I can't be sure because I
haven't read Suzanne Somers' "Eat, Cheat, and Melt the Fat Away."
"Learning Cocoa" isn't even the worst Cocoa book ever written. That
dubious honor currently belongs to Jesse Feiler's "Mac OS X Developer's
Guide" (which I believe was the second book to market).
And I am disappointed by your attack on O'Reilly. For many people new
to Cocoa, it was the only book available to get started, and in that
regard, I applaud O'Reilly for putting it out when they did. You talked
about the economics of Cocoa books, so you should recognize that
O'Reilly was taking a financial risk with the book.
Personally, I found "Learning Cocoa" helpful as a gentle introduction
to Cocoa, which after all, is what it was intended to be. Sure, there
are better books available today (including yours), but they weren't
around when OS X was first trying to attract developers.
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