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Learning Cocoa with Objective-C: Developing for the Mac and iOS App Stores by Buttfield-Addison, Paris, Manning, Jonathon 3rd (third) Edition
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First published September 20, 2002
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February 24, 2017
I got this as an e-book, because Borders was going out of business, and I needed to use up a gift card. The edition I got was written for OS X Tiger, and I was using Leopard at the time. Many of the examples still worked as described in the book, though in several instances I needed to do some research on the directions it gave for using XCode, since the options had changed. I couldn't get one of the last examples to work as described.
It was a nice book for "kicking the tires" in Cocoa, giving you an idea of what you can do in it, and how easy it can be to get some cool things going, but I didn't get a sense afterwards that I really knew how to write an OS X app. competently. I think its intent was to cover the gamut of Cocoa's features in text, graphics, and UI controls, giving you some examples of what it can do, but it was not comprehensive in helping you gain a sense of mastery over the framework. I also didn't feel like I knew the Objective C language that well afterward, since the book's presentation gave me just enough of the language to run Cocoa apps. This was my introduction to Objective C. I would not recommend it for that. You don't have to know the language to use this book, as it gets you familiar with some basics, but it moved so quickly on that, I didn't get a good sense of the language's features. I read "Programming in Objective C," by Stephen Kochan (I also wrote a review of that book on Goodreads) to get a better sense of the language.
It was a nice book for "kicking the tires" in Cocoa, giving you an idea of what you can do in it, and how easy it can be to get some cool things going, but I didn't get a sense afterwards that I really knew how to write an OS X app. competently. I think its intent was to cover the gamut of Cocoa's features in text, graphics, and UI controls, giving you some examples of what it can do, but it was not comprehensive in helping you gain a sense of mastery over the framework. I also didn't feel like I knew the Objective C language that well afterward, since the book's presentation gave me just enough of the language to run Cocoa apps. This was my introduction to Objective C. I would not recommend it for that. You don't have to know the language to use this book, as it gets you familiar with some basics, but it moved so quickly on that, I didn't get a good sense of the language's features. I read "Programming in Objective C," by Stephen Kochan (I also wrote a review of that book on Goodreads) to get a better sense of the language.
July 31, 2010
A little dated now, but it was a good introduction to Mac programming.
October 21, 2012
Nice book
April 3, 2013
Nice an quick intro for all cocoa components and their Mac counterparts .
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