Objective-C Information

[goellner]

I was wondering if anyone could point me to a good Objective-C book.  I'm
on a students budget so I have to limit myself to one book. I have some
experience with C and Lisp but I've never really worked with Smalltalk. I
also have some experience with simulation languages in the form of GPSS
but I don't think that will help me much with Swarm.

I've looked over the books listed on the Objective-C home page

http://www.batech.com/~dekorte/Objective-C/New/Literature/Books.html

but most of the books seem to lean toward NeXT. I'm using gcc so I don't
want to buy a book that tells me how to use the NeXT UI.

The first two books on the list

Object Oriented Programming: An Evolutionary Approach

and

Objective-C: Object Oriented Programming Techniques

seem like possible choices so if anyone can comment on these two or if
anyone has any other books to add I would be thankfull.

Also, since I am new to this list and I pulled some of the archives. I
noticed some people were tying Genetic Programming into Swarm and I was
wondering if there were any web pages discussing this in more detail. I'm
curious as to weither the approach has been to code the GP's in
Objective-C or to add some sort of external programming interface. I've
done GP stuff in Lisp but I haven't branched out. Since I know Lisp I was
going to try using Guile but I don't know if it works with Objective-C,
any comments?


Thanks.


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