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Re: Cocoa Books

Subject: Re: Cocoa Books
From: PJ Pritchard <email@hidden>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 00:54:55 -0400

Every programmer must learn C. Pointers and structs and all 35 reserved words should be burned into their brains.

Why?

1) Some of us had to learn BASIC, Assembler, Pascal, Fortran, C, C++, AppleScript, perl, bash and Java to fully appreciate how well Objective-C behaves. You should suffer some too.

2) C programmers don't ask questions on Cocoa-dev-list, they answer them. (kidding ... mostly)

3) Most code is written by a former C programmer. To understand it, it helps to know where it comes from.

4) UNIX commands are written (mostly) in C. If you use UNIX, you should know C. If you use OS X, you use UNIX. Therefore ...

5) If you know C, you have full rights to tell people like me to go shove it ... (kidding ... mostly)

BTW> If you want a beginner book in Cocoa, buy the Hillengrass book. If you want to learn how to master Cocoa, use the Cheeseman book. If you want to have a Cocoa book to use as reference for any question you could possibly ask (prior to 10.3) use the Buck/Anguish/ Yacktman. If you want to be a real Mac programmer, buy every Cocoa book available and scour Apple API docs regularly. There is no other way. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Cocoa-dev mailing list (email@hidden) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: This email sent to email@hidden Follow-Ups: Re: Cocoa Books From: Ondra Cada <email@hidden> Prev by Date: Re: ... loading XML store type into in-memory store... Next by Date: Re: Distributed Objects - setting protocol crashing GCC 4.0 Previous by thread: Re: Cocoa Books Next by thread: Re: Cocoa Books Index(es): Date Thread