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Title: Programming in Objective-C by Stephen Kochan ISBN: 0-672-32586-1 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 10 November, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Read this book. Then learn Cocoa
Comment: Yes! Yes! Yes! Finally a book that teaches how to write Objective-C programs. Now I will become an expert on Cocoa.
Rating: 4
Summary: good prequel to all the cocoa books
Comment: I suggest reading this book as a prelude to a book on programming using Cocoa and objective C. I think an especially good match is to read this book (or even the 1st half of it) and then start in with Hillegass' book, then possibly supplement that with "Cocoa Programming" by Anguish, et al. The main strength of Kochan's book is that he teaches Objective C, just Objective C, and that the only tool you need to confront is the commandline. This is much simpler than cranking up Xcode and Interface builder to tackle full-blown Mac Cocoa applications.
My only gripe with this book is the use of "free" rather than retain/release for memory management. This is completely foreign to how things work in Cocoa, and I think it was a mistake to do it this, since you'll just learn to do it differently once you move on to Cocoa, and the point of this book, for me at least, was to get an Objective C grounding for Cocoa. SInce the logical role for this book is to get beginners ready for Cocoa, I think the memory management should have followed standard Cocoa procedures.
Despite this gripe, this is a very useful book for starting in with Objective C and a very reasonable introduction to object oriented programming.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good for self-education or for a training course
Comment: While I am a veteran C programmer and trainer, I had never had the time to investigate Objective-C. Even though I had encountered many references to it over the years, and had a few people tell me I needed to check it out, I just never got around to looking at it. Part of the reason was that I never was able to find a book that I really wanted to read, until now.
This book takes you from the start, but wastes little time in stepping through the fundamentals of the language. If you do not know C, it will bring you up to speed quickly. If you are experienced in C, but not in object-oriented programming, then you can easily skim through the introductory material to extract the points of interest. For those who have a higher level of experience, there is an extensive treatment of some of the foundation framework set classes. A small set of exercises is at the end of each chapter, so it could be used as a textbook.
A good solid introduction to a version of C that is object-oriented and that has some syntactical features different from standard K & R C, this book will serve you well if your interest is either self-education or using it as a textbook.
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Title: Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X by Aaron Hillegass ISBN: 0321213149 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 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): $9.95 |
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Title: Applescript the Definitive Guide: The Definitive Guide (Definitive Guides) by Matt Neuburg ISBN: 0596005571 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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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: 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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