Re: newbie looking for books on GNUstep/Cocoa

[Chris Hanson]

On Nov 5, 2003, at 12:24 PM, Ralph Moeritz wrote:
> Does anyone know of any books on Cocoa that target programmers
> already proficient in ObjC? I would hate to buy a 400 page book, only 
> to
> find that the first 200 pages or so are useless to me.

What would be the potential market size of such a book?  Maybe a dozen 
people?

Cocoa books typically don't spend 200 pages introducing Objective-C.  
The best introductory book is "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X" by Aaron 
Hillegass and the best intermediate/advanced book is "Cocoa 
Programming" by Scott Anguish, Eric Buck, and Don Yacktman.

> How much of the information
> covered is Cocoa specific (ie. not relevant to GNUstep)?

Cocoa has a lot more features than GNUstep does right now.  That 
doesn't mean that information about those features is useless if you're 
trying to get into GNUstep development.

> Also, are there any plans to integrate Gorm & Renaissance ala
> Glade & libGlade? I would hate to have to choose...

How would that work?  OpenStep has a very different paradigm for 
communicating between view (human interface) objects and the controller 
objects that manage them than most other frameworks.  I think you'll 
have a better understanding of how the above could fit together (and 
how they wouldn't) after getting your hands dirty with Cocoa or 
GNUstep.

  -- Chris

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