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Title: Cocoa Recipes for Mac OS X by Bill Cheeseman ISBN: 0-201-87801-1 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 14 November, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The best and most comprehensive tutorials available
Comment: This is an excellent programming cook book. Armed with this book and some conceptual background, the world of Cocoa Programming is open to you. This book is not suitable for people who have never programmed before, but you don't need a computer science degree to use it either. The individual recipes are each valuable and explain both the "hows" and "whys" of common Cocoa programming techniques. The book has a "learn by doing" philosophy. The recipes in this book are the best and most comprehensive tutorials available for Cocoa programming, but they are long. Plan to spend several hours working on each recipe. Once mastered, you will be able to modify and reuse each recipe to develop countless applications. This book will give you a sense of how the pieces of Cocoa fit together so that you will be able to more easily approach new programming topics.
Rating: 5
Summary: Valuable Cocoa Reading
Comment: Anyone serious about learning Cocoa should consider adding Cocoa Recipes to their reference arsenal. I have found it to be a valuable source of information that extends the essential Cocoa books authored by Hillegasse, and Anguish et al. Cocoa Recipes discusses in depth a number of areas not discussed extensively in other titles. I found the discussion on formatters very useful. Also, Cocoa Recipes provides an additional perspective in relation to core cocoa programming tasks. Best of all, it provides many practical, easy to adopt code examples. If you are serious about learning Cocoa, you will get something out of this book. Cocoa Recipes is best read after you have read one or two of the Cocoa books mentioned above. It will help round out your knowledge and will become a valuable reference source.
Rating: 2
Summary: Whooha this is bad
Comment: Unlike the person who gave this book five stars I can't give this any more than two. If there were any good books about Cocoa programing I would give this one star. I gave it two because this was the best I read until now.
Ok so why do I think this book is crap? Well because this is one of those books that is about one single project where you can get lost pretty quick. Or let's say 735 pages of one project separated in several huge tutorials. The first chapter is about 150 pages and I get fed up with the fact that the author never gets to the point. So what happens if you don't understand or do something wrong in ... well almost anywhere? Suddenly you may not get your app working and you can't go on since you didn't get the app to compile.
And this has to be pointed out - IF YOU DO NOT KNOW PROGRAMING - I do think that this book is NOT for you!
You should to have some good knowledge about C, variables, arrays et.c to even start reading this book. I will use this book as a reference, since the "table of topics" are great. Since I didn't get the first tutorial working I can't really go on. I payed 60 US at my bookstore, and I'm REALLY dissapointed. At the book cover it says: "suitable for cocoa first-timers...." I dont agree, it should say "suitable for cocoa first-timers .... with good knowledge of C or C++". If you do read the book, don't forget to read Apples "Inside MacOSX: Object oriented programing and the objective-C language" before you start reading this book! (downloadable at apple.com)
I thaught this book was really difficult even thow I done one C course at school (wich I didn't finish), one Pascal course, have been working as an Lasso develloper for 1,5 years and I'm quite good at javascript.
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Title: Cocoa Programming by Scott Anguish, Erik Buck, Donald Yacktman ISBN: 0672322307 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 20 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: Objective-C Pocket Reference by Andrew Duncan ISBN: 0596004230 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X by Aaron Hillegass ISBN: 0201726831 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 03 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: Learning Cocoa with Objective-C, 2nd Edition by James Duncan Davidson, Inc. Apple Computer ISBN: 0596003013 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Building Cocoa Applications : A Step by Step Guide by Simson Garfinkel, Michael K. Mahoney ISBN: 0596002351 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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