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Re: “Cure for n00b-ness” or “Cocoa Tutorials for the Rank Beginner”
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Re: “Cure for n00b-ness” or “Cocoa Tutorials for the Rank Beginner”


  • Subject: Re: “Cure for n00b-ness” or “Cocoa Tutorials for the Rank Beginner”
  • From: Uli Kusterer <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:54:17 +0200

On 22.06.2007, at 03:48, Murat Konar wrote:
Buy a book. Really. This one:"Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X" by Aaron Hillegass, <http://tinyurl.com/25e9gs>

So far, everyone I know who managed to get into Cocoa programming without much cursing used Hillegass' book. I can definitely recommend it. Of course, you might want to get a good book on C. Dave Mark's "Learn C on the Macintosh" (http://spiderworks.com/books/ learncmac.php) was very good back when I worked with the first edition, but I haven't tried the new Mac OS X eBook edition of it yet.


Unless your time is worthless, you'll more than make back the $33 bucks in time saved flailing about trying to avoid paying for quality instructional materials. I know I did.

Ian Joyner wrote:
The default is:

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ ObjCTutorial/chapter01/chapter_1_section_1.html

Note that I never got anywhere with the tutorials on Apple's site. Especially the Moon Travel Planner tutorial or whatever it was called just walked you through creating an application, but apart from following the shopping list, I didn't really learn anything. Aaron's book had me doing my first own app the day after I'd finished reading. And I mean real app that I sold, not a simple test app.


For completeness' sake, after you've finished Hillegass, you may wanna read Apple's Objective C PDF that details the language. It's a very dry, reference-style book, but it covers some things that, at least in the first edition, Hillegass didn't cover.

Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
http://www.zathras.de



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