Re: BEST BOOK FOR LEARNING COCOA
Re: BEST BOOK FOR LEARNING COCOA
- Subject: Re: BEST BOOK FOR LEARNING COCOA
- From: Bjoern Kriews <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 23:53:40 +0200
On 30.03.2004, at 22:54, Tiago Da Mesquita wrote:
Hi.
I want to develop software using Cocoa and I'd like to know what's the
best book around.
I have no experience with Cocoa or Objective-C, only that gained by
following the *few*
tutorials around the net and in the Apple Documentation. I have,
though, experience with Java.
This means I woudn't mind buying a book that explains things in
Objective-C.
I would prefer a book that has information about creating costum
interfaces, that is,
I want to develop the user interface with something more than the
primitives provided by the framework.
I would like to be able to define, for example, a view like the month
view in iCal.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks in advance,
For people who know how to program my recommendation is
"Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X" by Aaron Hillegass (new edition
probably in May)
as a head-start (it is one of the best tech books I ever read,
Hillegass is a brilliant teacher)
followed by
"Cocoa Programming" by Anguish, Buck, Yacktman
which is also extraordinarily well written and gives you the gory
details.
None of the books in print now tells you about Cocoa Bindings which are
a very valuable extension in OS X 10.3.
I expect the Hillegass revision to do that - until then you can learn
how to do without - this will come to the rescue some time later :-)
Also, Apples Bindings documentation just got a lot better.
In my very personal opinion, O'Reilly has failed to produce good Cocoa
books until now
with the exception of the "Step by Step" book by Garfinkel (and Mahoney
?).
It is a remake of an old NeXTSTEP book but it presents some real world
problems,
useful if you have them, otherwise you are ok with the other two.
I hope for O'Reilly to break out of this dilemma with Erik Bucks
"Cocoa Design Pattern" which is due in May(?)
The Cocoa FAQ contains a list of books, also see
http://www.cocoadev.com/
for some reviews.
** Cocoa FAQ: <
http://www.alastairs-place.net/cocoa/faq.txt> **
Regards, Bjoern
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