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Title: Beginning Mac Programming by Kevin Spencer, Jeff Thompson ISBN: 1931841004 Publisher: Premier Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99

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Average Customer Rating: 2

Rating: 2
Summary: poor tutorial, but good overview of cocoa and carbon
Comment: This book starts with a short primer on RealBasic. The second section is a tutorial. The tutorial is poorly explained, however. As a complete beginner, I found complex code with no explanation and often "magic code." Magic code appears in the project without ever being introduced in the tutorial. There are multiple errors in the tutorial as well. I guess it is good practice to be able to debug on your own.
Finally, the tutorial uses very few of the techniques available to RealBasic. The tutorial that comes with RealBasic is much better.

The last few chapters talk about Cocoa and Carbon and give a very good overview, but this space could have been used to make the tutorial much better.

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