Re: Best beginner's book
Re: Best beginner's book
- Subject: Re: Best beginner's book
- From: Alexander Lamb <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 13:09:46 +0100
Why not Vermont Recipies? It is really well written and beginners as well as
more seasoned developers can enjoy it.
It does not cover anything about graphics or views but covers most of the
things you want to know to write document based applications.
Alex
On 10.1.2003 6:38, "Jim Jaeger" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 11:43:18 -0500
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> Subject: Best beginner's book
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> From: "Susan G. Conger" <email@hidden>
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> To: email@hidden
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> I have been a Mac developer for over 15 years and I am trying to pick
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> up Cocoa. I have Learning Cocoa from O'Reilly but I don't really like
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> it. I am looking for suggestions on what the best book is for
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> beginners.
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I'm a beginner at Cocoa and essentially a beginner at programming,
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having last programmed seriously about twenty years ago.
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I bought and tried _Learning_Cocoa from O'Reilly. I gave up on that
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book at page 147. Maybe it was too dense for me--or I was too dense for
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that book. Someday, I'll probably try it again.
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I bought and worked my way through _Cocoa_Programming_for_Mac_OSX from
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Addison Wessley. I found Hillegass's writing style more to my liking
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than _Learning... I had the feeling that Hillegass not only knew what
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he was writing about, but he was having fun while he did it. The book
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was worth the price, and the result worth the effort.
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At the moment, I'm at page 476 (of about 600 pp.) while working through
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_Building_Cocoa_Applications_ from O'Reilly. My feeling is that this
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book was rushed to press. I'm gratified that Hillegass's book was
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published first, because I think the errors in _Building... would have
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frustrated me, if it had been first. Garfield and Mahoney need to get a
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second edition on the market before I would recommend their book. That
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said, as an experienced programmer, you might be able to tolerate the
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errors that we less current folks can't. I printed the errata for
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_Learning... (about 24 pages) and find that, so far, I can work my way
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through a problem (I've been stymied for two days at p.476, though),
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but it's not a credit to the book to have to do this. The book is, on
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the other hand, a deeper look into Cocoa than the Hillegass book.
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In summary: The Hillegass book is where I think a beginner should
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start, but an experienced programmer might be able to tolerate the
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Garfield and Mahoney book. _Learning_Cocoa_ may be a worthwhile
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reference book, someday.
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If it's important to you, neither _Building_Cocoa... or
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_Cocoa_Programming_ fell apart in my hands when I tried to use them, as
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_Learning_Cocoa_ did.
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jim
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