Comprehensive Cocoa
Cocoa Programming
This is the most thorough presentation of Cocoa that I’ve found in print. At over 1200 pages, it was surely years in the making. It has four parts:
- An overview that presents the context and key ideas of Cocoa. Chapter 6, “Cocoa Design Patterns” is a must-read for anyone left confused by the “do-this-do-that” sequential nature of most Cocoa instruction.
- An over 800 page reference to the Cocoa classes.
- A “Techniques” section that works through a large example and includes a discussion of frameworks and application distribution.
- A set of appendices that includes a description of the Objective-C runtime that’s very useful for bridge-builders. It even concludes with a section titled “Access Any Class From A Scripting Language”.
I think I’m going to be using this book for a long time.
This book is a bargain at any price. But have you seen those online used book prices? They must be less than the printing costs for this book. Get this book, then buy those authors a beer!
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So much for low used book prices. It looks like we’ve scraped up the last of the cheap copies. It’s a shame that all this work is locked up in unsearchable and hard-to-find dead trees.