Re: Book: Mac OS X Advanced Development Techniques
Re: Book: Mac OS X Advanced Development Techniques
- Subject: Re: Book: Mac OS X Advanced Development Techniques
- From: Joe Zobkiw <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 12:16:07 -0400
On Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at 12:01 PM, publiclook wrote:
How does your book compare to "Cocoa Programming" by Anguish et. al. ?
I'm not asking about writing style or anything. I am just curious
about information content, utility, and market niche. For example,
both books claim to include advanced topics. If I already have "Cocoa
Programming," should I but your book too ? If I don't have either,
should I by both or only one. Which one ?
Great questions, but ones that are difficult for me to answer in an
unbiased way. Both books are published by SAMS so I think you should
purchase both, mine first ;-)
I have a copy of Cocoa Programming and am very impressed with the
content. I'm sure the books overlap here and there (all Mac OS X
programming books overlap to some extent) but the major difference I
see is that Cocoa Programming takes a "Macintosh Revealed" approach by
introducing topics in a logical order (Views and Controls, Events and
Cursors, Menus, etc.) whereas my book contains projects in each chapter
that show a complete, working example of a specific topic
(Document-based applications, Threads, SOAP, etc.) I don't try to
explain in as much detail what menus and cursors and events are, I just
jump right into using them.
Personally, it depends where you are in the learning curve. I think
Cocoa Programming is an excellent book to go through to learn all the
pieces of the Mac OS X/Cocoa puzzle. My book is useful once you know a
bit of what Cocoa Programming teaches you. You might say my book
leverages off of the content of Cocoa Programming (and other similar
books.)
Hope this helps.
<joe>
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