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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.4465
EAN: 9780321334220
ISBN: 0321334221
Label: Addison-Wesley Professional
Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 496
Publication Date: February 09, 2006
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Sales Rank: 141742
Studio: Addison-Wesley Professional
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Rating:  - Poor Introductory Reference
I'm most of the way through this book and have been losing interest since the first chapter. This book suffers from 3 fatal flaws: incomplete instruction, nonexistent trouble shooting, and poor code design. The first is very frustraiting, if you learn by doing and try to write the code in the book instead of just looking at the included code, you will quickly find your code does not work because the author omitted entire functions from the book. When learning to walk you will stumble, good intro ... Read More
Rating: - Not a good introduction to anything.
I bought this book thinking that it might be a nice step by step tutorial for the Cocoa and XCode development platform. It turns out to be not much of an introduction to anything.
Maybe it is just a personality difference or a difference in my learning style versus the style of the book, but I really hated it. Right off the bat, I could not bring myself to care anything at all about the project for the book. I found the whole thing to be a big, confusing, dreadfully boring mess.
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Rating:  - Lays a great foundation
This book covers a lot of ground - great for beginning Xcoders, especially CodeWarrior converts. Not quite as in-depth as I thought it would be, based on the description, but well worth the price.
Rating: - solid IDE for Mac programmers
Macintosh programmers live in a restricted world; a ghetto, perhaps. The nice features of the Mac user interface and operating system also tend to make it hard to find good programming tools. Luckily, Apple has gone a long way to addressing this with the promulgation of Xcode.
Within Xcode, you can program in various languages, C, Java and, notably, Objective C. The latter is really mostly confined nowadays to a Mac. Anderson shows that the Xcode IDE does much of what you would expect a ... Read More
Rating: - Lots of useful info.
As to a recommendation, I'd say yes. Step into Xcode is most valuable to those getting started with Xcode, but even for people who have been using it for a little while you are sure to pick up a few tips and tricks.
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