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| Book: | Learning Carbon | |
| Subject: | Learning Carbon Review | |
| Date: | 2002-07-01 11:29:07 | |
| From: | Josh Gilbert | |
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Rating:
 
I've had a few years of experience with Cocoa and Objective-C (since OS X server 1.0). Recently I needed to perform some very simple tasks in Carbon as Cocoa's counterparts are currently not functional. I've used Cocoa (and it is my Framework of choice) however I needed to implement a few minor Carbon elements into an application. Despite the reviews of other readers I think a few trivial examples would have helped beginners a lot more than the single project. The chapter on event handling could have been much more extensive. It was helpful but not a great way to learn Carbon programming. I've learned more from browsing the Apple provided documentaion (which this book heavily borrows from). And a lack of complete application source code was a nail in the coffin. I mean, great, teach us by bits and pieces and don't show us the entire source for the app. Thankfully I was able to download it from O'Reilly and pick out the bits and pieces I really needed. I didn't want to learn how to write a whole app in Carbon - I wanted to learn how to utilize some features of Carbon for use in Cocoa. Maybe a book on wrapping Carbon with Cocoa or something would have been more along the lines of what I needed but this was about all that was available and sadly it had quite a few shortcomings. It's a great book for just learning Carbon all by itself but for those Cocoa programmers wishing to access features not yet available in Cocoa (which Apple claims is a peer API) the Apple provided docs may be good enough. |
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