Comments on: Book Review: Cocoa® Programming for Mac® OS X, Third Edition

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 21 May 2008 12:54:26 +0000

I’ll second Victor’s comments - I received my copy last weekend, and I’m working through it now. I have quite a bit of experience programming on Windows, but when I started looking into Mac programming, I just didn’t know where to start. This book has been a great help to get me going on Mac development.

By: Nicolas Ivy

Nicolas Ivy — Wed, 21 May 2008 10:01:45 +0000

Thanks for blogging about this book! I’ve been working out of a well-beaten copy of the first edition, and despite much TLC administered, the poor thing’s falling apart. I’ve been meaning to look for a used copy on Amazon, but now it looks like I don’t have to.

Stumbled upon this blog not too long ago looking for Quicksilver video tutorials. Glad I bookmarked it.

By: Scott Freer

Scott Freer — Wed, 21 May 2008 03:31:35 +0000

This is a great book. The only thing better is the course Aaron teaches at the Big Nerd Ranch - he uses this book as the course material. I took the course this April and it was well worth the money. If you want a jumpstart into Cocoa development, the Cocoa course is perfect.

By: Victor

Victor — Tue, 20 May 2008 22:38:56 +0000

I received mine last Monday. I have no programming experience in Mac, but I am moving along at an amazing speed. I am in chapter 7 and so far I have nothing to complain. Great buy.

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By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:14:12 +0000

Given all the currently shipping Macs now have 2+ cores, threading MUST be included these days. Yes, I realize it can be complicated, and no I haven’t read this book as of yet.. But having programmed for the past 15 years in multi threading environments, I can attest to how brutally painful it is to use (let alone work on / fix) programs which obviously haven’t taking threading into account. Even relatively new products (Aperture!) which by all accounts should have done it right given their age, don’t.. So lets, please!, change this thought of “threads are too hard for beginners” and find a way to set this world up to use the 16+ cores we’re soon to have..