Re: Help me, which book I should buy to learn Cocoa??
Re: Help me, which book I should buy to learn Cocoa??
- Subject: Re: Help me, which book I should buy to learn Cocoa??
- From: Georg Tuparev <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 21:36:41 +0200
I know I am entering a mind field, but somehow I feel I need to add my
0.02...
On Monday, August 25, 2003, at 03:55 PM, James Ludtke wrote:
My order of preference for those books is the same as yours. During
the last couple of month, whenever I had searched for help, he most
expensive and biggest book, the one by Yackman, never yielded an
answer.
Hmm. Your needs for help are not my needs for help, but from all books
listed in the original posting, Anguish Buck & Yacktman book was the
only one ever able to answer some of my questions - granted, I know
NeXTSTEP since version 1.x ... something like 14 years if I count
accurately. What I would like to say here, is that this book is the
only one going beyond the intro level. This book is worth every penny!
All of the books were or are in my bookshelf, and I read them all out
of professional interest. Here the results:
- Learning Cocoa with Objective-C I dumped to the local community
library. Granted, it was the first edition, but this was total waste of
money. I was told the second edition is better, but after I bought for
the first one, I felt I should get the second for free.
- Mac OSX Advanced Development techniques is neither Cocoa nor
advanced! The author obviously have no idea neither about object
orientation, nor about Cocoa. I was told he knows OS 9 well, but this
is no excuse. It is very seldom I actually throw a book away - and this
is one of these rare occasions...
- "Building Cocoa Applications A step by step guide" was an excellent
NeXTSTEP book, and it is still very good Cocoa book ... I wish the
authors had more time to make sure the examples at least compile. But
besides many NeXT -> Apple conversion mistakes this stays one of my all
time favorites. I like in particular the wider (Unix based) flavor of
the book. But if you are coming from OS9 this will not be the best
intro ... I had 5 years unix before NeXT and I loved this book!
- "Cocoa programming for Mac OS X" by Hillegass and "Cocoa Recipes for
Mac OSX The Vermont Recipes" by Cheeseman are both excellent intro
books, although very different. Cheeseman is probably the Cocoa best
self teaching guide ever written, and if I teach Cocoa in a class I
will base it on Hillegass. Both books are must for any Cocoa beginner.
-- georg --
"More Trees, less Bushes!"
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