Re: Cocoa Books
Re: Cocoa Books
- Subject: Re: Cocoa Books
- From: Paul Lynch <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 17:13:14 +0100
On 11 Apr 2006, at 14:13, Ondra Cada wrote:
On 11.4.2006, at 6:54, PJ Pritchard wrote:
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.
You forgot Cobol, APL (oh, those days of square and triangle
operators), Forth (namely Forth!), Algol, PostScript, x86 assembly
language (ick! The thing comes back! Shudder!) and the batch
control language of OS/360.
JCL. Somewhat similar to the path I had to follow (BASIC, Fortran,
Algol, APL, Forth, APL, COBOL, IBM assembler, Z80 assembler, Pascal,
C, etc). Postscript is just a Forth dialect, anyhow.
People who have been posting asking for a "Cocoa for Dummies" book
might not be aware that there is already a "Cocoa Programming for
Dummies" (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0764526138/).
For complete beginners, Stephen Kochan's "Programming in Objective C"
plus Aaron Hillegass's "Cocoa: Programming for OS X" make a good
complementary pair, although both really assume some basic
familiarity with programming. I don't recommend the O'Reilly/ADC
books at all.
I've been working through Christopher Pine's "Learn to Program",
which is intended to teach Ruby to absolute beginners, and, although
promising, I find that it makes too many assumptions. Programming
from scratch really isn't at all simple to teach, and most
experienced programmers assume that the beginner knows far more than
they really do.
Paul
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