Re: Really learning ObjC

[Graham J Lee]

On 19 Feb 2007, at 20:22, Stefan Bidigaray wrote:

> So I've been thinking about really learning ObjC recently.  I mean,  
> I know
> how to read the code in most programs, but I wouldn't have a clue  
> if someone
> were to ask me do write code.  I can do C pretty well for an  
> Engineer but
> I'm oblivious to some of the language's functionality, mainly the  
> O.O.ness!
> I've read all the material available online, but most of it doesn't  
> go as
> in-depth as I'd like, and other go way too in-depth for my level.   
> Since I
> learned most of what I know about C from "Programming in C" I  
> thought I'd
> invest on the book "Programming in Objective C".  I was wondering  
> what is
> the general consensus about this book?  Amazon also recommends "Cocoa
> Programming for MacOS X", how's that book?  I know there's some  
> stuff on it
> on the main page, but I'd like to know if it's useful for GNUstep.   
> I don't
> have a Mac, so I'd have to do the examples and exercises in GNUstep!

This is a slightly off-the-wall answer, but I learned Pascal,  
followed by C at University (having taught myself BASIC and spent  
years trying to un-learn it).  My introduction to *step was the NeXT  
network at University (which I ended up running for a couple of  
years), and everything I needed to know about ObjC I learned from  
Garfinkel and Mahoney's book.  They did an updated book for Cocoa,  
called "Building Cocoa applications", but AFAICT everything in that  
book would translate over to GNUstep as long as you know how to write  
-make Makefiles, so look at the tutorials at www.gnustep.it for that.

Cheers,
Graham.