Rating:  - Great Resource
This is a great book I haven't finished it yet, since the semester started, but so far it's been very clear and effective. It introduces the idea of objects early and effectively, which is nice for someone who already knows how to program in C and wants to learn how Objective-C can be supplement what I already know.
Rating:  - Excellent
This is a great book for a beginning Objective C programmer. The only con is that it is a little out-dated and slow. Still though for beginning Mac OS X programmers it is indispensable.
Rating: - One of the Best Instructional Books Ever
Kochan is an educator and that comes through VERY clearly. To give you some perspective on where this review comes from - I am a Macintosh Systems Engineer. Before Kochan's book, I had read part of the Second Edition Absolute Beginners Guide to C by Perry, which was great, then tried to read Hillegass's Cocoa book and had to give up. I moved on to my certifications and installing Xserves, learning to shell script in Bash and all that jazz then came back to programming with Kochan's book.
ANYONE INTERESTED IN COCOA PROGRAMMING WHO DOES NOT KNOW OBJECTIVE C SHOULD READ THIS BOOK FIRST. You may be able to get away with not reading it if you are already a programmer familiar with object oriented programming. But for a server admin like myself, this book was a godsend. You may not even need to learn C before reading this, though it couldn't hurt. Certainly I was not an expert in C when I picked this book up.
The examples are great and give you some useful tools with which to build your own programs. Everything you read on Cocoa programming will be MUCH easier if you wade your way througth this masterpiece first. This book is strictly Objective-C. No Cocoa. It's implied that you're probably reading it because you'll want to program for Macs (and I certainly did), but it remains platform agnostic. And it is not a hard read at all! Well, the section on operators and variable types is a bit dry, but when you get back into loops, qualifiers and conditions, you'll start smiling again!
I love programming. I have always thought of it as a combination of geometry (postualtes and theorems) and algebra that allows you to be infinitely creative. Kochan's book makes Objective-C seem like an easy place to start building your applications and tapping the power of your computer! I am grateful for this text!
Rating: - Fantastic introduction to Objective-C
I'm a Naval Architect needing to code in Objective-C and I was scared to death when I first read the documentation available on apple's website on the matter. But this book make it all clear and simple. If you're a bigginer or that you haven't encountered object oriented programming, this is a very good introduction.
Rating: - A great book for people new to Objective C
For a Ruby programer interested in learning Objective-C I found this book to be perfect for a newcomer. In fact I find this to be the best C related book I have read. Highly reccomended.
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