Re: Objective-C Programming

[Jonathan B. Leffert]

Hi Dennis,

Comments below.

On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 06:55:56PM +0100, Dennis Leeuw wrote:

> So I would like to ask your help on this. To make things easier I have
> the following sources at hand:
> The C programming language (second edition) from Kernighan and Ritchie
> Objective-C Pocket Reference from Andrew Duncan (O'Reilly) which btw
> also mentions Nicola Pero as contributer, and GNUstep as a library
> class!!!
> And ofcourse the Internet.

I've not found K&R to be a very good way to actually learn C as a early or
first structured, compiled programming language.  Once one actually knows
some C---or even a lot of C---the book is exceptionally valuable, but it
can be quite difficult to learn C from it.  I may be alone in my opinion,
but that has been my experience.

There's a book called "C By Dissection" which I remember being very good at
teaching C, and as a general intro-to-albeit-functional-programming text,
I'd recommend "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" by
Abelson and Sussman, which is an excellent text.

YMMV, of course.

Jonathan