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| Book: | Building Cocoa Applications: A Step by Step Guide | |
| Subject: | Building Cocoa Applications: A Step-by-Step Guide Review | |
| Date: | 2002-09-24 10:20:42 | |
| From: | William | |
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Rating:
 
Overall, Building Cocoa Applications is a good introductory book and since I received it for free at WWDC 2002 I shouldn't complain too much. However, the code in this book is full of errors and inconsistancies. Many times after typing in the code from the book, I was disappointed that it would not compile. I had to read over the example code to find the errors. Several times the dealloc method was left out completely. And a simple thing like a missing semicolon (code, p. 479) demonstrates to me that this book was not proofread at all. As a beginner, learning programming, OO concepts and Cocoa, I'm very frustrated with the many errors which have wasted many hours. I guess I've learned a lot from fixing the errors but I hope this was not intended by the authors. I can only guess that since the example code is dated Feb. 2002 that the book was rushed to press so it would be ready for WWDC in May. And that's a shame because without quality prooffreading this book is not up to the standard of O'Reilly books which I have come to expect and depend on. And four months later still no official errata.
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