Programming in Objective-C (Developer's Library)
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Editorial Reviews:
Programming in Objective-C is a concise, carefully written tutorial on the basics of Objective-C and object-oriented programming. The book makes no assumption about prior experience with object-oriented programming languages or with the C language (upon which Objective-C is based). And because of this, both novice and experienced programmers alike can use this book to quickly and effectively learn the fundamentals of Objective-C. Readers can also learn the concepts of object-oriented programming without having to first learn all of the intricacies of the underlying procedural language (C). This approach, combined with many small program examples and exercises at the end of each chapter, makes it ideally suited for either classroom use or self-study. Growth is expected in this language. At the January 2003 MacWorld, it was announced that there are 5 million Mac OS X users and each of their boxes ships with Objective-C built in.
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Spotlight customer reviews:
Customer Rating:
Summary: Get it!
Comment: If you are new to Objective-C and are teaching yourself, do the following.
A. GET THIS BOOK.
B. Get the Objective-C Pocket Reference.
C. Get programming.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great first book for ObjectiveC and Cocoa
Comment: In short, this book is a perfect start developing form Mac and also iPhone, the title is a bit misleading as it only mentions ObjectiveC but the fact is that it takes you in a very coherent and well written fashion to C and also Cocoa framework.
Great book, buy it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good Introductory Book You Can Read Quickly
Comment: I wanted a book I could read very quickly. This book was written in an easy-to-learn style and I plowed through it really quickly. It is intended as a very introductory book and if you have any knowledge already of Objective-C it might be a bit basic, sometimes even a bit too basic. The first part is the basics of the Objective-C language second part is an introduction to some of the more important parts of the Foundation Framework (but not AppKit). Overall I enjoyed the book because it met my needs of a quick introduction/overview book that I could read quickly.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Very well written
Comment: As someone who uses object-oriented programming on a near-daily basis in the workplace, but who has only academic experience in the C language (from many years back), this was a very digestible book.
I hesitated to purchase the book due to that I see there is a 2nd edition coming up soon (and already available for pre-order), so I was tempted to wait for it, but I decided to make the purchase anyhow, since my objective (no pun intended) was to become grounded in the language, and I figured this would do the trick.
What strikes me the most is the talents of this author, to write lucidly, and precisely, and in a non-intimidating way. I feel it helped to have several years of programming behind me, so the concepts didn't present much issue, but I could see that, in my opinion, it would even be a good first book for learning object oriented programming, and I wouldn't doubt it a bit if I was to discover this book might be used by a number of college instructors as a class textbook.
All in all, this is a very well written book for a very decent programming language. I would recommend it, but keep in mind the possibly fast-approaching 2nd edition if you aren't the type to want to have to buy the book twice.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Objective-C in an older version that needs brush UP
Comment: Programming in Objective-C describes the basis of the Objective-C language. Several good chapters. The book is from 2003 and relates to Project Builder the tool before Xcode. Currently Xcode version 3 is around. The book lacks what must be newer lauguage features Objective-C 2.0 like @synthesize.
The book needs to be modernized.
I bought the book for making iPhone applications, for this the book is too old.
Technical Details
Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 005.133
EAN: 9780672325861
ISBN: 0672325861
Label: Sams
Manufacturer: Sams
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 576
Publication Date: 2003-12-18
Publisher: Sams
Studio: Sams
