Re: Cocoa Books
Re: Cocoa Books
- Subject: Re: Cocoa Books
- From: Phil Faber <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 22:27:26 +0100
On 11 Apr 2006, at 00:19, Jonathan wrote:
To me, there have got to be a bunch of folks here who could
competently
write a great “Cocoa For Dummies” book in a flash, which would
include the
Objective-C we need, as well as the step by step Cocoa instruction
at the
same time, help all of us stupid, inexperienced n00b’s get into the
most
exciting set of tools for Mac (I’m very excited...), help the Mac
community,
do good for all us Mac users by broadening the accessibility of our
tools to
a wider audience — and maybe make a hell of a lot of money, just as
a bonus
for being so nice.
It seems to me that the book most newbie's would find most useful is
one that answers the question "How can I achieve <x>, <y> or <z> in
Cocoa?".
Newbie's don't want to be told that "The NSMutableString class
declares the programmatic interface to an object that manages a
mutable string—that is, a string whose contents can be edited—that
conceptually represents an array of Unicode characters. To construct
and manage an immutable string—or a string that cannot be changed
after it has been created—use an object of the NSString class."
... they want to know "How do I stored a string of characters in my
program and then make changes to that string?"
As a relative newbie myself I know the pain I went through (STILL
going through!!) searching through books & on-line resources trying
to figure out how to do really simple stuff like:
- Opening a text file and reading from it
- Displaying some text
- Asking the user and questions and getting the answer
- Sorting a small batch of numbers
- Joining two strings together
...etc
Back in the days of BASIC it all seemed so simple! Cocoa is
fantastic ... but until there's a resource that the complete beginner
can go to which explain how to do the absolute basics, many of us
will continue to struggle.
...or is it just me?!
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