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Title: Cocoa Programming by Scott Anguish, Erik Buck, Donald Yacktman ISBN: 0-672-32230-7 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 20 September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: If you only buy one OS X programming book, this is it.
Comment: This book is not about teaching you to program it is about eaching you to take full, and I mean full, advantage of Cocoa. If you have a handle on Cocoa programming this one book will pretty much complete your understanding of it.
It covers the additions that Objective-C adds to the C language in about 27 pages. If you already know C, that is all you need to get going. If you don't already know C this book will not teach it to you.
Consider that, counting the index, the book is 1245 pages of small print and has none of the usual fluff that eats up half the book, it is a lot of valuable information; all meat and very little fat.
It has in-depth sample code for about everything you are going to need or want to do with OS X. Just as important, it not only tells you what you can do, but what you should do and explains why.
Most programmers never learn a particular tool or object until they want to use it in a program. This book has example code for just about anything you would want to try and clear explanations of what you must know to use it. Having a working example with source is just the ticket when you are learning a new object.
If you want to program for OS X, drop what you are doing and order this book. If you are already an old hand at programming OS X, I'll bet there are more than a few things in this book that you don't know.
Rating: 5
Summary: The best Cocoa book so far
Comment: I own just about every book written for Cocoa programming, but so far Cocoa Programming is the best, it is not a mere tutorial but goes in depth of Cocoa and OS X. I found answers on many questions that I could not find in any other book. In short, it is a must have book.
Rating: 3
Summary: Not particularly informative or well organized
Comment: I now have several books on Cocoa Programming, and I must say this one is the thickest. It however seems to have the least amount of useful information or maybe it's just how it's organized. But, I keep trying to go to this book to get answers and it just never seems to have the information that I am looking for. I would recommend Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X by Aaron Hillegass (Author) or Learning Cocoa with Objective-C by James Duncan Davidson as being far and away better references. My feeling is that all of the books that I have found to date suffer from requiring a rather substantial working knowledge of both C and object oriented programming. This book seems to be even worse about this than the two I recommended.
To give you an idea of who I am (and whether my opinion is valid for your situation). I am a self taught programmer with fairly experience in high level structured programming but very little previous experience in C or OOP. I have managed to figure out how to begin Mac OS X programming, but it has been a slog. I have been using this and other Cocoa book for eight months now.
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Title: Cocoa Recipes for Mac OS X by Bill Cheeseman ISBN: 0201878011 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 14 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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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: 20 September, 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: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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