Cocoa programming third edition

This is still the case in the third edition. It's very much a hands-on book that teaches you by doing. A lot has happened in the last years in Mac programming, so the content has been updated, revamped, reworked, and so on. Everything that you need to get started is here. Aside from all of that, I think it's important to say that Aaron's writing style in that first edition very much influenced things I've written here and at Cocoa Dev Central. That book made me realize that it was perfectly okay to speak directly to the reader and make the explanations follow the code, rather than the other way around.

To Aaron's credit, he also made it clear I could say anything I wanted about the new edition. Doug — Feb 16, 08 I've already got mine on pre-order. Definitely looking forward to it. Justin Williams — Feb 16, 08 I preordered my copy as soon as it showed up on Amazon. I also thought it was neat that a quote from my MacZealots article is is on the book's homepage. I had forgotten I said such nice things about the book.

It still holds true though. Mike Nowak — Feb 17, 08 Paul Robinson — Feb 17, 08 Scott Stevenson — Feb 17, 08 The Amazon page for the third edition is here. Chuck — Feb 17, 08 This is a must-buy for me, even though I've already got a copy of the first edition.

Hillegass's book and this website are the only places I've seen that give "outsiders" a real, usable entry point to OS X programming. Step into Xcode is a useful supplement to Hillegass's book as well. They miss the fact conceptually , Cocoa programming can be baffling if you're coming in from Windows, and all the outlets, object controllers, app delegates, make it tough to get any traction.

It's nice to see it confirmed that the Cocoa Programming book was an inspiration in the tone. The boy Ken — Feb 17, 08 For instance I don't believe but could be wrong!

Were there already 10 other new Cocoa books out there, then your statement would hold more water, especially if they were more up to date than his 2nd ed is.

It's great this 3rd ed covers Core Data etc. That said Apple's documentation has really improved since the likes of mmalc and Scott Anguish jumped aboard, but some beginners like reading real books. Anyway, as I say I'm not knocking Aaron's work, just saying that your interpretation of the stats could be accused of being skewed. That's not to say you're wrong, just that it's impossible to prove your statement one way or the other without any real competition. I hope it's not all glitz though and I've no evidence to suspect it would be Anyway that's my 2 pence erm about 3 US cents I think.

Ross Carter — Feb 17, 08 I have to confess I never finished reading Aaron's book. About two-thirds of the way through, I felt so empowered I couldn't wait to start writing apps so I put the book down and have been happily Cocoa-ing ever since. What makes Aaron's writing special is his ability to convince you that he honestly wants you to learn the material.

Some writers adopt a take-it-or-leave-tone: "here's the relevant info, do what you want with it. He constantly reminds the reader that it is OK to struggle with new concepts. When he says, "Sometimes when I think about undo, my head swims a bit," or when he says that it's normal not to understand everything in the reference documents, he provides the kind of encouragement that money ordinarily can't buy. I've pre-ordered it too. I also pre-ordered mine I noticed that after doing so that the search fonction at Amazon didn't returned the 3rd edition for quite some time Two questions then, is it necessary to buy a book about objective-C I don't know any that cover Objc2.

Same thing about a book that cover Xcode Xcode 3 Unleashed to be released seems to be a good choice. Thanks Kamelito. Drew — Feb 17, 08 I got mid-way through the second edition but then upgraded to The prospect of the third edition gets me excited to take another crack at things as it felt like I was finally making some progress moving from Applescripting into "real" programming.

The thing I enjoyed most was that I was able to jump into real-functioning example programs almost right away. It's a shame the demo app stopped building properly for me under Xcode 3. Thomas Alvarez — Feb 17, 08 I'm really looking forward to the 3rd edition. I haven't pre-ordered yet, but I started drooling the day I found it on amazon. I did that for the time being to keep trying to learn off the old books 2nd edition, Step Into Xcode, etc.

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