Ivan's agile thinkings » objective-c http://ivansthunks.com/blog My thoughts and opinions on all things agile Sat, 02 Jul 2011 20:21:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Objective-C having read a pocket reference http://ivansthunks.com/blog/2009/08/08/objective-c-having-read-a-pocket-reference/ http://ivansthunks.com/blog/2009/08/08/objective-c-having-read-a-pocket-reference/#comments Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:31:18 +0000 ivan http://ivansthunks.com/blog/2009/08/08/objective-c-having-read-a-pocket-reference/ On the way back from a long-weekend on Vancouver Island we had a little time to kill whilst waiting for our ferry home.  There was a Chapters store nearby, so that was an easy mascre of half and hour.  After browsing for a while and noting possible future purchases I purchased Objective-C Pocket Reference.  At 122 small pages it was a quick read and covered he basics of Objective-C’s syntax and detailed various fundamental aspects of the Cocoa and GNUStep and the various differences betwen them.

I got from it pretty much what I was hoping: an easily digestible introduction into Objective-C.  I had previously read a bunch on the web, but I always find reading books, rather than reading a screen, to be far more effective for myself.  I had many different questions answered from an attempted iPhone coding session a few months ago.

I have been nudging some of the guys at work to start an Objective-C/iPhone/Mac programming study group. This book will be very useful for the novices in the group (myself included) to quickly look up the fundamentals and work through the syntax impedance as they try and push a new language into their Java brains – this was definitely a sticking point with the Erlang study group we had for a while.

In summary, a great, concise reference – just like the title suggests.  It appears that the reviewers on Amazon also agree.

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