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Title: Learning Carbon by Inc. Apple Computer ISBN: 0-596-00161-4 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (6 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Back to basics, A gentle introduction
Comment: Learning Carbon is a gentle introduction to the very basics of Carbon programming. It carries the reader over the foothills of Carbon development to give them a solid grounding in the fundamental concepts of the API. This book will also be of some value to application developers who are already familiar with the classic Mac OS programming APIs but who need to know about the nuances and special flavors that the Carbon application framework adds to the Mac OS.
As other reviewers have pointed out, this document covers many of the same areas as Apple's on-line developer documentation, but the value of the text is that it collects that documentation into one place and ties it together into a cohesive tutorial. The text is also able to go into a little more depth on some topics than the on-line documentation.
If you're looking for a comprehensive reference text, this book is not going to help you, but if you need to know about the fundamentals of developing applications with the Carbon framework then this book can teach them to you.
Rating: 3
Summary: Well written but simply too short and too simplistic
Comment: If your a beginner who wants to learn just enough about Carbon to get by this might be the right book for you, so long as you use it along with Apples excellent Inside Mac OS X documentation and Project Builder. However if you are looking for a more detailed book which covers pretty much everything you need to know but were afraid to ask I would recommend Carbon Programming by Kevin Bricknell which is about 10 times longer. Learning Carbon is not a bad book, it will give you a good grasp of the "feel" of Carbon and is an excellent guide to Apples Developer Tools but it is neither an extensive tutorial nor a particularly good reference.
Rating: 2
Summary: I hope there is better on the way...
Comment: This book disappointed me - I read the online docs that became "Learning Cocoa", and liked them quite a bit, so I expected a similar book in "Learning Carbon". I was wrong.
I bought both as hard copies because the Cocoa one was such a great little reference, but this book contains a number of errors in the samples, doesn't cover a lot of very relevant details, and doesn't give you a good "feel" for the Carbon API. I learned more reading through the headers for a few hours than I did from reading this book.
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Title: Carbon Programming by Kevin Bricknell ISBN: 0672322676 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 15 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Mac OS X Programming by Dan Sydow ISBN: 0735711682 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 15 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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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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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: 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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