Re: Starter books for newbie?
Re: Starter books for newbie?
- Subject: Re: Starter books for newbie?
- From: Neil Earnshaw <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 12:13:55 +0100
As others have said, learn C first. Don't use a C++ book to do this.
The C Programming Language 2nd Edition, by Kernigan and Richie, from
Prentice Hall
These guys invented C, they deserve your money.
When you want to move to Cocoa and Objective-C, buy
Objective-C Pocket Reference, by Duncan, from O'Reilly
115 pages on Obj-C, absolute gem, but no tutorial.
And use it in conjunction with one of the books below:
Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, by Hillegass , from Addison Wesley
Good beginners book, 39 pages on Obj-C
Learning Cocoa with Objective-C, by Davidson , from O'Reilly
Good beginners book, 27 pages on Obj-C
After that, you might want to buy:
Building Cocoa Applications, by Garfinkel and Mahoney , from O'Reilley
Intermediate book, 20 pages on Obj-C, tutorial app uses tasks, pipes
etc.
And if you decide to stick with it buy:
Cocoa Programming, by Anguish, Buck and Yacktman, from Sams
Massive 1200+ pages, 28 pages on Obj-C, excellent discussion of
Cocoa design patterns, covers controls the others don't, like
NSBrowser,
Lots of graphics coverage.
I found that, as your questions about Cocoa get more sophisticated,
having a single book isn't enough. They each have holes that one of
the other fills in, so you might want to buy them all eventually. Or
spend your life trawling through the Apple documentation, but I don't
find it very approachable.
A word of warning about:
Cocoa in a Nutshell, by Beam and Davison, O'Reilly
The first part of this book is a high level overview of many of the
facilities Cocoa offers. The second part is a list of functions and
class methods. A _list_, not a reference. There are no explanations
of the methods. This is not a very useful book. Download the 'Cocoa
Browser' app, its free and its much more useful.
- Neil (Cocoa Newbie+two months)
On Wednesday, July 9, 2003, at 12:17 AM, Alexander Moss wrote:
Hey all!
I'm a newbie with very little programing experience. HTML is about
the extent of any programing i've done. Anyway.. was wondering if
anyone would please point me to a couple good books for beginning
Cocoa? Wanting to get some pointers before shelling out $50 for a
book.
Thanks!
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