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Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X
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Author: Aaron Hillegass
List Price: $44.99
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ISBN: 0201726831
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co (03 December, 2001)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 17,772
Average Customer Rating: 4.39 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 4 out of 5
Excellent introductory tutorial
I've never had the privilege of attending Aaron's highly-regarded 'Big Nerd Ranch' training program, but I have to believe that working through this book is the next best thing. The book is presented in tutorial form, with a nice flow between examples, discussion and exercises. The author doesn't hesitate to share his opinions, good or bad--particularly on subjects like Cocoa Java. The result is a frank, incisive introduction to Cocoa programming that helps beginners understand 'the right way' to do things, and will make Apple's object-oriented environment accessible to people with a wide variety of skill levels.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Your Cocoa Must Buy.
This is an excellent book. I looked at some of the others and bought these too. Most are very good; but this IS the definitive guide.It gets you writing Cocoa straight away, so you do it, it gets explained, and reinforced. I like this approach. It also emphasizes the need to have a good grip on Objective-C, which I think is vital. It provides a good introduction to Objective-C, Obeject Oriented Programming and Cocoa. I liked the book so much that I now buy any book by this author.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Better than the O'Reilly Cocoa books
After tediously working through two O'Reilly books on Cocoa programming, I bought this book based on review recommendations. I was confused through both O'Reilly books, but Hillegass finally made sense, plus there aren't nearly the number of programming errors (half of my time with the O'Reilly books was spent on the errata pages and looking at the downloaded corrected programs to change the book examples so they would work). This book is solid, and made me feel like I was accomplishing learning throughout the book. Hillegass uses great analogies, informative history tidbits, and well thought out examples. Additionally, he puts in programming challenges at the end of many chapters that give the student a new goal to use information learned in the chapter. In short, Hillegass is a great TEACHER, a qualification often lacking in other programming books.
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