mldemsey@cs.arizona.edu (Matthew L. Demsey) (05/18/91)
This is a summary of the past posting and follow-up to the enquiry for Objective-C book recommendations. Hope this helps someone. Loki. (mldemsey@caslon.cs.arizona.edu) : ------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael D Mellinger suggests: Brad Cox, the author of Objective C, has a book. I forget the name. You might try looking at the FAQ posting which is archived on nova.cc.purdue.edu pub/next. Tim Budd supposedly has a book that mentions Objective C too. *** Don Mcgregor clarifies the Brad Cox suggestion: "Object Oriented Programming: An Evolutionary Approach," Addison- Wesley. Supposed to be a new version out by now. The version I've got is somewhat light on actual Objective-C programming, though he does explain OOP quite well. The classes on the NeXT will be different from StepStone's. *** And Markku Sakkinen clarifies on Tim Budd's work: Then I think the book for you is Timothy Budd's brand new "An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming" (Addison-Wesley). It is exceptional among OOP textbooks in that it treats 4 different languages rather equitably: Smalltalk, Object Pascal, C++ _and_ Objective-C. (Bias warning: having commented and discussed a lot on the manuscript, I cannot be totally impartial about this book.) ------------------------------------------------------------------- An extremely thorough John Coppinger scribes: Cox, Brad J., "Object Oriented Programming: An Evolutionary Approach" ISBN 0-201-10393-1. Good intro to Objective-C. (Note: 2nd edition - ISBN# is 0-201-54834-8) Webster, Bruce J., "The NeXT Book" ISBN 0-201-15851-5 A few chapters here are a good launching point into NeXTstep programming. NeXT Technical Documentation: Ah, the meat of the matter. Learning Smalltalk will help, too. The extensions added to C to create Objective-C were patterned after the Smalltalk model. Master Smalltalk ------------------------------------------------------------------- David Carpenter sites a tentative May release date on book: _Objective-C: Object-Oriented Programming Techniques_ by Pinson and Wiener (Addison-Wesley). The catalog says that the book presents basic concepts, an accurate description of Objective-C (both Stepstone's and NeXT's) and illustrates programming in Objective-C through examples. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Raja Georges Pe'trakian recommends: One approach would be to use the User Reference Manual for Objective-C which is provided by Stepstone Corporation. You can reach them at (203)426-1875. I believe that there are some differences though between Stepstone's Objective-C and the Next's. ------------------------------------------------------------------- and all other object-oriented systems are easy. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Raja Georges Pe'trakian recommends: One approach would be to use the User Reference Manual for Objective-C which is provided by Stepstone Corporation. You can reach them at (203)426-1875. I believe that there are some differences though between Stepstone's Objective-C and the Next's. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Geoffrey S. Knauth adds: Try also "Object-Oriented Software Construction " by Bertrand Meyer, published by Prentice-Hall. ------------------------------------------------------------------- And of special interest to all, Jouni at Helsinki tells: I saw in the new Addison-Wesley book catalog that there is a new NeXT-related book supposed to be launched in summer. The name is "Objective C - Object-Oriented Programming Techniques" by Lewis Pinson and Richard Wiener. The description says the book covers OOP with Objective C and specially on the NeXT platform. 350 pages, ISBN 0 201 50828 1, paperback. -------------------------------------------------------------------