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Cocoa Programming For Mac OS X (2008)

by Aaron Hillegass(Favorite Author)

4.04 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0321503619 (ISBN13: 9780321503619)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Addison-Wesley Professional

review 1: This book tried to teach Cocoa, Objective-C, and Xcode at the same time and failed pretty miserably. The book is organized around example programs, not programming concepts, so it's pretty much impossible to go back and skim to find a particular bit of code or concept.This book teaches you how to read Objective-C, not how to write it. The author encourages you to copy-paste the code a lot or retype it verbatim. Instead of practicing what was just covered, the exercises either have you repeat the example program verbatim or make you figure out things for yourself that haven't been gone over yet. You might as well just read Apple's technical documentation instead.
review 2: Ok lets be clear here. I'm the worlds worst programmer! my brain is not wired to programme... more, I'm thick as two short planks when it comes to programming. I'm like a dog chasing a cat, I always go back for more punishment!!Great book, but skips through some of the explainations of how individual lines of code are structured and why. Apples reference docs don't give simple examples of how each call works and I find it confusing as I don't easily see how a call should be used.Having said that the one great (and frustrating) thing about this book is the challenges at the end of various chapters. Aaron works through development of a small programme across several chapters and then presents you with a challenge at the end of one of the chapters instructing you to construct a similar programme using what you have learnt BUT also using a new call or two.This is the bit that floors me and I don't allow myself to read any further until I've completed the current challenge.It may well take me years to finish this book.........oh dear! less

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