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Programming in Objective-C (6th Edition) (Developer's Library) 6th Edition

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About the Author

Stephen Kochan is the author and coauthor of several bestselling titles on the C language, including Programming in C (Sams, 2004), Programming in ANSI C (Sams, 1994), and Topics in C Programming (Wiley, 1991), and several UNIX titles, including Exploring the Unix System (Sams, 1992) and Unix Shell Programming (Sams, 2003). He has been programming on Macintosh computers since the introduction of the first Mac in 1984, and he wrote Programming C for the Mac as part of the Apple Press Library. In 2003, Kochan wrote Programming in Objective-C (Sams, 2003), and followed that with another Mac-related title, Beginning AppleScript (Wiley, 2004).

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  • Series: Developer's Library
  • Paperback: 576 pages
  • Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 6 edition (December 13, 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0321967607
  • ISBN-13: 978-0321967602
  • Product Dimensions: 7 x 1.4 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (51 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #48,227 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Excellent book for learning Objective C
By Ken Hsieh on December 20, 2013
Format: Kindle Edition Verified Purchase 19 of 19 people found this review helpful
A lot of examples in the book illustrating the concepts of object oriented programming in Objective C. You do not need to have prior programming experience to understand the concepts. A little bit of C programming knowledge would certainly help, but not necessary. This book is designed for people without programming experience. I strongly recommend readers to try out all the examples using a Mac computer running Xcode 5. You would have more pleasant learning experience. If your goal is to do iOS programming for iPhone/iPad/iMac, this is a good book to start.
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Excellent resource for learning Objective-C
By L. Aslan on December 18, 2013
Format: Paperback Verified Purchase 18 of 18 people found this review helpful
As a Mechanical EngineerI knew FORTRAN and C very well and had dabbled a little in C++. When it came time to write iOS apps, I knew I had to clear the hurdle of learning Objective-C and it's syntax before any of the sample iOS code I was looking at made any sense.

This book was (and the previous edition) a great way to clear that hurdle. I spent about a month working the exercises in the book in my spare time. The last chapter of the book has you bringing all of what you had learned together to make an iOS app (fraction calculator) and expanding it's capabilities a little by little.

Shortly after completing the exercises I was able to write a couple of rudimentary apps on my own. I can now focus on the features of the app, and leverage what I have learned from this book to execute what I have in my head so to speak.
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Great book for a an experienced developer looking to learn Objective-C
By Sean M Beanland on March 15, 2014
Format: Kindle Edition Verified Purchase 12 of 12 people found this review helpful
I'm a C#/.NET developer and this was a great introduction to Objective-C. Everything is explained very clearly, and the hands-on examples, while simple, did a good job of getting me familiar with the concepts and getting the muscle memory for typing a language whose syntax often felt very odd compared to C#. The exercises expanded on what was talked about in the book and help solidify what was discussed.

For a new programmer, I guess I can't say one way or the other if this would be a good way to start. I think I would have struggled mightily with the object-oriented concepts, and would have had zero idea of how to debug my typos. Speaking of which, I only encountered one typo in the provided code. The forums for the book haven't been updated for the 6th edition, but I was still able to find the solution to the typo there.

I mostly used this on the Kindle for Mac app, and found the layout of the code examples to be pretty poor. It looks great on the Kindle iPad app, so I'm not sure why the experience would be so different. Fortunately, they've included jpeg versions of sample code you can view if the mangled code layout is too difficult to parse.

This is the first technical book of this type that I've completed start to finish, and that was solely due to the quality of the writing, explanations, and code examples. I really can't recommend it enough.
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Excellent Book, but you should Know.....
By Andrew L. Valdez on August 27, 2014
Format: Paperback11 of 11 people found this review helpful
This book is awesome. You can tell Mr. Kochan is a no nonsense sort of person, or at least his teaching style is. He's very much in key when it comes to teaching nothing but the objective C language. I began reading the Big Nerd Ranch guide 2nd edition and progressed to 23 chapters before looking here. It's funny because every time I was confused, I used the 3rd edition guide by Kochan to answer some of my questions....then I realized I should be reading this book! I was skeptical at first because the book didn't seem as inviting as the BNR guide but the information was right to the point and succinct.

Mr. Kochan said something that I highly appreciate looking back now(by that I mean after reading most of the BNR guide): 1. is "I am going to teach you the objective-C language, .....not iOS or the frameworks or anything else, the focus is the language".
For you new OBJ-C programmers, I am telling you now....this is what you need. In the BNR guide, it's an excellent resource but Aaron Hillegass tries teaching you the C language first, then objective-c..... not too mention that the exercises in the BNR guide require a good amount of outside research, iOS design and many other aspects all in the confines of only a couple hundred pages. That's why there's so much to learn in any given chapter. I especially didn't see the need in learning C first, not that it isn't helpful but rather the little we did learn was only enough to confuse you because you don't become proficient in C you just learn its basic syntax which apparently OBJ-C is built off of...(I didn't feel so necessarily, but anyway).....I will say that in the BNR guides defense that it's a little simpler introduction but there's a point in that book that goes from 60 to 150mph in two pages....Read more ›
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Very well written!
By Anders Jokstad on January 10, 2014
Format: Paperback Verified Purchase 8 of 8 people found this review helpful
This book is absolutely perfect if you are completely new to objective-c programming. It explains everything in an understandable way, but at the same time in depth. The examples in the book are great to get a better understanding of what the different concepts.
I am not finished reading it yet, but has been interesting all the way to page 70. All of the information are relevant for the basic understanding. The book does not explain stuff before you have learned all the stuff required to understand it, and not before it is necessary to know it.

Summary: Great book for beginners!
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This was a really bad decision. The people at Pearson Education really...

Doesn't download on a Mac OS X Kindle app! wtf why would they block people from leaning Mac code on a Mac. This was a really bad decision. Read more

Published 17 days ago by Mickey David Manuel
Great objective c book

I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn objective c. It touches on iOS app development at the very end but it doesn't go deep into the subject. Read more

Published 19 days ago by Jose Alvarado
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Published 4 months ago by Jim McCoy
Five Stars

Kochan's oeuvre is the gold standard.

Published 4 months ago by Aaron Mendez
The best I've found so far.

This book taught me Objective-C like how my programming professors teach it in school. After trying to learn Objective_c for so many years, this book was the only one that made me... Read more

Published 4 months ago by Ignatius Kuvlo
Five Stars

Very usfull book

Published 4 months ago by Avi Cohen
Five Stars

Good book.

Published 4 months ago by Robby
How can this be incompatible with a Mac?

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