Re: Recommendations ?
Re: Recommendations ?
- Subject: Re: Recommendations ?
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 09:25:55 -0400
On Jun 17, 2007, at 7:36 AM, Barry wrote:
Any book recommendations please - so many to choose from !
I need a book which covers cocoa & Xcode.
I've been programming in C/C++ using CodeWarrior on Mac, Borland &
VC on Windows for many years (too many) but don't find the
'Interface Builder' very intuitive.
I've stepped through the tutorials, can follow the code but the
unexplained jumps, for example between controls & the First
Responder lose me. I can't seem to find the code resulting from
such links.
No one seems to explain what this First Responder is. And if I try
to set breakpoints on, say OpenDocument, I can't see the code in
any of my project files.
A book that explains the 'why?' as well as the 'how?' would be great.
Thanks
I recently started learning to write Cocoa programs with Xcode (I'm a
long time C/C++/Python programmer on Unix/Linux). I found having two
books helped me. I borrowed a number of books from the library, but
the two that I would recommend are:
Aaron Hillegass' Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X
Beginning Xcode published by Wrox
The Cocoa Programming book is the one everyone will recommend. It's
great for getting started with Cocoa and I found the Xcode book was
worthwhile to me for learning how to use Xcode more efficiently
(Apple's online PDF documentation of Xcode is pretty good, but I like
having printed books). Of course, the question now is do you wait for
a book written for Xcode 3. I have not seen Leopard/Xcode 3 (other
than what is on Apple's public website) so I don't know how different
they are and anyone that does cannot comment given the NDA. The other
book that was useful to me that I borrowed from a library but not
worth buying was a book on Objective-C, specifically Programming in
Objective-C by Stephen Kochan. As an experienced C/C++ programmer,
just skimming through it quickly got me up to speed with Objective-C.
There's enough online material that you probably don't need an
Objective-C book.
What I'm looking for now, but don't think exists is an advanced Cocoa
book that describes how to do many of the common patterns in Cocoa/
Objective-C. For example, I wanted to do completion in a NSTextField.
I eventually found this:
http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/SearchField/index.html
which helped me learn what I needed so developer.apple.com is a good
substitute for a book like I'm looking for, but I'd still buy an
advanced book with these types of examples if one came out.
Dave
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