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Book:   Learning Cocoa
Subject:   Learning Cocoa Review
Date:   2001-12-18 12:13:25
From:   Dave Wu
Rating:  StarStarStarStarStar

This is a good book for getting a ground level understanding of Cocoa and how the frameworks work. I do wish there was a little more theory as to why the framework builders did things the way they did. A good additional reading would be Design Patterns (Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides) which talks about Notification, Delegation and Reflection. Some of the important concepts used by Cocoa.


Notably lacking though is any talk about the networking layer, Java as a language and perhaps a bit about creating your own framework code.


If you're interested in coding in Java I've put up an article on www.whiningdog.net about Learning Cocoa in Java. Feel free to contribute comments as I haven't quite got everything working right...



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