Re: Best book for learning Objective c and cocoa
Re: Best book for learning Objective c and cocoa
- Subject: Re: Best book for learning Objective c and cocoa
- From: Bill Hernandez <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:30:26 -0500
I am fortunate to live within a few miles of Nerdbooks, and always look forward to trips that take me there. I am never disappointed, they always have a wonderful selection that you can actually browse through, and today's trip was no different. Since I mentioned them, I'll point out that they always sell at a substantial discount, and since most of their business is web based they operate out of a warehouse, but if you don't mind a warehouse, which I don't, it is a great place to visit. I am in no way related to, etc, etc. I am a happy customer.
All that having been said, they had several new books (published 2010) , and I bought three.
I almost didn't buy the one by Bill Cheeseman, because as I scanned through it, it didn't have as many images as the others. Boy, what a huge mistake that would have been. When I got home, I started reading "Cocoa Recipes for Mac OS X", and within a few pages, I had absolutely fallen in love with this book, and with Bill Cheeseman's gifted writing style.
I always use more images than text when documenting anything, because I tend to write poorly. I never take the time to proofread, and to this day when I type, I look at the keyboard instead the screen. Never have mastered this process. So I tend to look for books that have more images, because that is the style I am used to...
In my case, I figure that if I do screen capture with minimal text I minimize the typos I introduce in my un-proofed documents.
I personally buy tons of books, most of the time I will read parts of them, and at some point something is not explained well enough to suit me, and they end up becoming a reference. I always know when this is going to happen, because I start jumping ahead.
I think because Bill Cheeseman is in fact so gifted at writing, and explains things so well, this is going to be a really great book. I am very excited to have found it, and if you hadn't asked the question, I would have not made the trip to Nerdbooks, and would have missed this book. Boy, talk about the "Butterfly Effect".
Best Regards,
Bill Hernandez
Plano, Texas
On Mar 31, 2010, at 7:20 AM, Nikhil Khandelwal wrote:
> I am looking for books to learn Objective C and Cocoa. I have good knowledge of oo programming. Also I did a lot of work with Objective C and Cocoa using API's and reading through documentation. Please suggest some name of good books for knowing Objective C and Cocoa deeper.
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