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Title: Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X by Aaron Hillegass ISBN: 0-321-21314-9 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.42 (55 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A good book to learn from
Comment: This is /the/ book from which to learn Cocoa programming. The author writes in a clear, friendly, and engaging style. There is a minimum of typographical errors. The end-of-chapter challenges are challenging, but not so much so as to be discouraging. The book really keeps you going, and you feel more confident and capable as a Cocoa programmer as you progress. And once you've finished this book (and, preferably, the Objective-C Programming book from Apple available on the vervante.com website), you'll be ready to write non-trivial Cocoa programs on your own.
From there, you'll be able to learn more by reading the documentation Apple includes with the free developer tools, by searching Apple's cocoa-dev mailing list archives, and by visiting the various Cocoa-oriented websites. Unfortunately, at the time of this writing there are no other worthwhile Cocoa books.
On the other hand, this book is great. The only nit I can pick with it is the way the last several chapters seem to have been hurriedly written (or edited poorly), as they have little or no detail given in some cases. But, overall, the book is well worth the time and money.
Rating: 5
Summary: Getting started in Cocoa
Comment: First, I have to say I loved this book, I actually read half of it on a trip, not being in front of my computer, and still enjoyed the clear style and the gradual addition of new concepts and tools, chapter after chapter. Then I could hardly wait to be back home and start doing it for real.
Now for the potential buyer.
WHAT IT IS NOT: a reference book (no list of classes etc...) or a technical book for advanced programming; a book about Java or Carbon; an introduction to object-oriented programming; an introduction to C.
WHAT IT IS: an excellent introduction to programming in Objective C in the Cocoa environment of Max OS X, provided you know enough about
object-oriented programming (some basic understanding of C++ is preferable too).
WHAT YOU LEARN: Objective-C in Cocoa; using Apple Developer Tools; building an application in Mac OS X; how to make optimal use of Cocoa classes and API, knowing how they were conceived and meant to be used; a number of basic concepts and tips that really get you started.
THE PLUS that make this book so interesting: very good and clear writing; some amusing brief 'historical' insights; you really feel the author knows what he is talking about; the author gives personal views (clearly stated as advices, not rules); follow-up, errata, examples, comments, and more on his web site; still completely useable with OS X.2 (a couple or very minor changes that are listed on the web site anyway), so that's the good time to buy it (price is down, but content is still up to date).
Final comment: Objective C in Max OS X is very powerful and enjoyable.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book
Comment: ransom22's review pretty much says it all. I've since supplemented this book with some of the O'Reilly books, and I'm awaiting delivery of Scott Anguish's "Cocoa Programming", but this is an excellent book with which to start the journey into Cocoa.
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Title: Programming in Objective-C by Stephen Kochan ISBN: 0672325861 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 10 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: Cocoa Programming by Scott Anguish, Erik Buck, Donald Yacktman ISBN: 0672322307 Publisher: Pearson Education Pub. Date: 20 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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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: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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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): $9.95 |
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Title: Core Mac Osx And Unix Programming by Mark Dalrymple, Aaron Hillegass ISBN: 0974078506 Publisher: Big Nerd Ranch Inc Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $97.95 |
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