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26 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
A good book, but only for a few select people, August 28, 2006
This book is well written and easy to follow. It is a great book if you fit into one of the following categories.
Programming novice (From a novice review: Chapter 3, Classes, Objects, and Methods, pretty much cleared up all the confusion I've ever had about object oriented programming.")
Crusty veteran C developer (From a crusty review: "A vetran[sic] C++ programmer, I found this book to be a quick way to come up to speed on Objective-C")
Experienced, but clueless programmer (Clueless review: instead of learning procedures, as you would with C\C++, you learn about objects and how to use those objects in a productive way.)
If you are an experienced OO developer in a language other than Objective-C, you will quickly become frustrated with the pace and tedium of this book. I do not fault the author in this respect. He wrote a good book that applies to a majority of the possible readership.
The author also positions this book as a book for those without prior knowledge of 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)."
However, he is doing you, and your future coworkers a great disservice by maintaining this fantasy. Without prior knowledge of C, you will probably be a pretty awful Objective-C developer.
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 Programming in Objective-C (Developer's Library) 0672325861
Stephen Kochan
Sams
Programming in Objective-C (Developer's Library)
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A good book, but only for a few select people
This book is well written and easy to follow. It is a great book if you fit into one of the following categories.
Programming novice (From a novice review: Chapter 3, Classes, Objects, and Methods, pretty much cleared up all the confusion I've ever had about object oriented programming.")
Crusty veteran C developer (From a crusty review: "A vetran[sic] C++ programmer, I found this book to be a quick way to come up to speed on Objective-C")
Experienced, but clueless programmer (Clueless review: instead of learning procedures, as you would with C\C++, you learn about objects and how to use those objects in a productive way.)
If you are an experienced OO developer in a language other than Objective-C, you will quickly become frustrated with the pace and tedium of this book. I do not fault the author in this respect. He wrote a good book that applies to a majority of the possible readership.
The author also positions this book as a book for those without prior knowledge of 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)."
However, he is doing you, and your future coworkers a great disservice by maintaining this fantasy. Without prior knowledge of C, you will probably be a pretty awful Objective-C developer.
R. Hochstetler
August 28, 2006
- Overall: 5
- Overall: 5
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