Re: Book Recommendation
Re: Book Recommendation
- Subject: Re: Book Recommendation
- From: James Duncan Davidson <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 21:39:18 -0700
(removed the cross post and only replying to cocoa-dev... cross-posting
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On Sep 19, 2003, at 20:31, Daniel Xavier wrote:
A quick question for those with roughly 12 months of practical
development behind them.
Those with more than that feel free to add your comments.
What would be " the " Cocoa book for someone without one line of code
ever written?
Or if a combo of two books...which two? Other recommendations would
help greatly.
1. Learning Cocoa with Objective C 2nd Edition -James Duncan ( new one
on the way - Panther version?)
2. Building Cocoa Applications - Simson Garfinkel
3. Cocoa Programming - Scott Anguish
As the author of the first--my first choice (of course) would be to
recommend "Learning Cocoa with Obj-C". And to warn you to avoid the
still available "Learning Cocoa" books out there. They are totally
different beasts.
But, given that you've asked for a book for somebody without a line of
code written, I can't recommend any of the books above. First, you need
to learn how to code. Any programming language will do, but
unfortunately none of the Cocoa books is written from the point of view
of somebody fresh to programming and won't explain basic programming
concepts like loops and variables and such. I'd love to write one like
that, but right now, I've got other projects in the hopper.
What I'd recommend you learn first is a scripting language... Python or
Ruby come to mind and they are both on the Mac. That way you can learn
how programming works without having to climb all the barriers at once.
My first language (other than the Pascal class I took in school) was
Perl, but I wouldn't recommend that on many people. :)
Then, after you have a grasp of how programs come together, then I'd
recommend my book. Once you'd gotten through that, then graduate to
"Cocoa Programming". And, if my book doesn't make sense to you, by all
means take a look at either Aaron Hillegaas' "Cocoa Programming for Mac
OS X" or Bill Cheesman's "Vermont Recipies". We all come at the subject
matter from differing angles--and in programming getting things nailed
down from multiple points of view can be very helpful.
As far as a new edition of "Learning Cocoa with Obj-C", it's not going
to happen in the near term future. I'm currently knee deep in another
book. Maybe after Panther ships...
james duncan davidson
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