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 Learn all the new parts of Objective C November 12, 2009
John A. Vink (Cupertino, CA USA)
First of all, I'm a big fan of both these authors. Scott Knaster wrote all the books I read when I first started programming for Macs in the 90s. Those books were best of breed and were widely considered necessary reading for all new and experienced Mac programmers. Mark Dalrymple is one of the authors of Core Mac OS X and Unic Programming, one of my favorite books for advanced programming topics for Mac OS X.
I've been programming in Objective C for about 8 years when I got this book. Although I had lots of Objective C experience, I hadn't looked into Objective C 2.0 yet. This book covers all of Objective C, and I was able to quickly find all the new 2.0 stuff and have it explained in a clear manner.
It was all I was hoping it would be.
 Good intro but not too Mac oriented August 16, 2009
J. Franken (Australia)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
As the title says; The book is good but it does not cover a lot of mac specifics. This is a decent read and I read the book from start to end without referencing code too often on the mac.
The book does have some drawbacks, mainly that a couple of times they dont include all the code in the text which forces you to fall back to the source code files (which have to be downloaded and is not supplied on a disc).
Overall i found the book to be usable but not extremely in depth.
Objective C August 6, 2009
Sebastian J. Gosztyla
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
It is a great book with some nerdy humor. I loved it and if you follow along there is no reason why you shouldn't have a basic understanding of Objective-C.
Great Book! August 4, 2009
S. Hunter
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I first read Learn C on a Mac and then read this book. My intentions were to learn how to develop on the iPhone. I had a very minimum background in programming and and after reading the first book, I felt confident in taking everything in and the most important part, getting it. I am happy to say that I do get it. People say that Objective C is different with it's syntax and all. I like it. Once you get it then you will see how it is a good thing. I did have to read a few chapters over again, but by doing that it made the world of difference. I finished the book in one week, because I was just so excited to get all my reading done and get to actual programming.
I purchased the Cocoa something book (to lazy to go dig it out of my closet) to read when I finished this one, but only made it to chapter 2. I was eager to get to the other book I bought which was the iPhone SDK book. I made it 3/4's of the way through that book before setting it down and really just learning by doing. I had enough knowledge to either do what I wanted or was able to find out how to do it by searching the boards and Google for what I needed to pull it off.
I am a firm believer in this book and the Learn C on a Mac for people that want to get into computer programming or iPhone Development.
If I could give a handful of things to make sure you grasp along your journey towards iPhone Development they would be these:
1. OOP, understand that and everything that makes it up (inheritance, Polymorphism and so on).
2. Pointers, pointers pointers pointers, learn them because almost everything in Ob-C is pointers
3. Memory Management, this is pretty big for iPhone Dev
4. Learn Apple's process for Developing for the iPhone. There is a lot to know and you will have to deal with Certificates, Keys, Provisioning Profiles and so on.
5. Finally, learn XCode and all the Development tools.
I know I went beyond the book, but I just had to :)
Good luck on your journey if you are headed towards the iPhone Development Path or if you are going to just build for OS X.
Beware if you don't know C July 24, 2009
JOHN VANHUFFEL (Nebraska)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I like the book. But beware the description says it's suitable for programming beginners. You really need to read up on C first. I'm lost and I have written in COBOL, Pascal and BASIC. I'm buying a C book to catch up.
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