Holy crap, an Objective C text that doesn’t assume you’re retarded
December 5, 2008 9:38 pm General Interest, Objective C, Programming, Rants[digg-reddit-me]My good friend Jeff happened to mention offhand his knowledge of a document I’ve been looking for for quite some time now. I’m sharing it with my readers in case they’re looking for something similar.
Let me be forward: I cannot stand the various Objective C books I’ve tried. They all want to teach me to be a programmer. I’m already there. I just want a book like Stroustrup. The PragProg book is awful: the first several chapters are about Mac development tools, like I give a damn. Everything’s through interface wizards. It’s nauseating.
Jeff heard mein painz0rz, and turned me on to From C++ to Objective-C. It isn’t perfect: it’s not super comprehensive, and it’s translated from a different native language (French), which leaves a few passages cumbersome. However, as one can tell from reading the intro, the author of the document, much like me, found little to love in the state of Objective C documentation, and wanted to write something for people who were already well established.
Kudos to Pierre Chatelier for writing the book that Apple and Alan Kay could not.
December 6th, 2008 at 8:14 am
Dude, bitching aside the title of the document is “From C++ to Objective-C”, not “Objective-C for C++ Developers”. This may seem trivial but you got my hopes up, only to have them dashed
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December 6th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Oh whoops, sorry. Fixed.
I don’t understand, though: why does the difference in title dash your hopes?
December 8th, 2008 at 9:49 am
[...] like a concise and useful book for experienced programmers who want to learn about Objective-C (via John Haugeland). Unlike the various paper books I’ve seen, it isn’t full of step-by-step example [...]
March 29th, 2009 at 3:59 am
Hello,
Thanks for your enthusiasm !
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It isn’t perfect: it’s not super comprehensive, and it’s translated from a different native language (French), which leaves a few passages cumbersome.
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I am aware of that, but here is my proposition : are you interested in reviewing an updated version (with Objective-C 2.0) ? (Beware : the document is cursed. Two persons have already accepted and were unfortunately unable to accomplish it)
You can contact me by mail if you think the curse won’t hurt you
Regards,
Pierre Chatelier
March 29th, 2009 at 10:26 am
Absolutely, sir. And, speaking of the son of a professional book editor, I can tell you that I know exactly how much work this entails.
Thank you for the opportunity; you will not be disappointed.