Re: good xcode book?
Re: good xcode book?
- Subject: Re: good xcode book?
- From: "Dennis R. Cohen" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:26:47 -0700
On 9/22/05 at 9:08 AM, "Buttery, Ian" <email@hidden>
transmitted the following electronic message:
>
>The MacXcode 2 Book by Michael Cohen and Dennis Cohen with Andy
>Ihnatko as the series author is a very good read . . . And written in
>Andy's usual humourous style whilst being very informative. A little
>limited with Applescript Studio topics though.
>
>
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0764584111/002-7360158-
>4227207 ?v=glance
>
>Cheers,
>
Ian,
Thanks for the kind words on the book. We were instructed to insert lots
of jokes and "funny tangents" in the book to match the series style --
something that took some effort, but was fun (and for which some
reviewers have seriously "dinged" the book). Michael and I enjoyed
collaborating on this title.
The book is about the Xcode environment, not about programming in any
particular language, so the examples have to be pretty basic.
I would have put in more on AppleScript Studio (that was one of my
chapters), but we had to strike a balance with the other topics and page
count was an issue. If we are asked to do a new edition, as I hope will
be the case when the next major Xcode revision is on its way, I will
definitely push for more AppleScript Studio coverage -- I'd like to fit
in an example of putting an AppleScript Studio wrapper around a unix
commandline tool, which is something that I believe a lot of beginning
Xcode users are or would be interested in doing. In this edition, I
included links to where such examples could be found (page count,
again).
--
Dennis R. Cohen
FileMaker Pro 8 Bible (winter 2006)
PowerBook and iBook Digital Field Guide (Oct 2005)
The Xcode 2 Book (and other titles)
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