Re: OT/Newbie: Book/reading recommendations ?
Re: OT/Newbie: Book/reading recommendations ?
- Subject: Re: OT/Newbie: Book/reading recommendations ?
- From: Brian Willoughby <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 12:45:21 -0700
[ I'm brand new to OS X programming but have been doing C on
[ embedded and Linux systems for many years.
...
[ I'm fairly sure I'll be doing this as a Carbon app rather than
[ Cocoa as I have no Objective C experience and expect the GUI to
[ be fairly straightforward.
A straightforward GUI will require no code in Cocoa, so it's still less effort
to work in Cocoa compared to Carbon UI. All you'll need to implement are
action methods that respond to buttons. Most everything else is handled by
drawing communication links between UI objects.
With years of C experience, you'll learn the Objective C language in less than
a week. The best book for this is Apple's "Inside Cocoa: Object-Oriented
Programming and the Objective C Language" which is available printed, online,
or installed or your disk as part of Developer.
It will take you a while to master the art of OO, but that's not language
specific. Whether you're learning Java or Objective C, there are some high
level concepts that just take time to sink in if you're used to sequential
programming. One big thing to remember is that the documentation for a class
might seem incomplete until you remember to read the documentation for all the
superclasses as well.
Brian Willoughby
Sound Consulting
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