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- From: rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com (Ron Pomeroy x(Coop))
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Any reviews of Garfinkel & Mahoney's book?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.152201.14548@dvorak.amd.com>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 15:22:01 GMT
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- In article <C0DBLw.C8w@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
- writes:
- >>I've read only one review of G&M's recently-released book, of those
- >>
- >>that have read it, would you post your opinion of the quality of the book and
- why you feel the way you do about it?
- >>
- >>I would be more interested in reviews of the book now that it has gone to
- press because this is the copy I would be buying were I to purchase this book.
- I also would be more interested in reviews of the book from more than just one
- person.
- >>
- >>Thanks,
- >>--
- >>-- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)
- >>-- NeXTmail welcome
-
- This is a great book! (I hit chapter 6 this weekend, and I just received the
- book last week!). I like it because it's organization is well thought out and
- it strikes (at least for me) a good balance between detail and breadth.
-
- Easily the best NeXTSTEP programming book out today.
-
- Here a listing of the chapters to give you an idea of its contents:
-
- Chapter 1
- Introduction to the NeXTSTEP
- Graphical User Interface
-
- Chapter 2
- NeXTSTEP Development Tools
-
- Chapter 3
- Creating a Simple Application
- With Interface Builder
-
- Chapter 4
- Creating an Application
- Without Interface Builder
-
- Chapter 5
- Building a Project:
- A Four Function Calculator
-
- Chapter 6
- Nibs and Icons
-
- Chapter 7
- Delegation and Resizing
-
- Chapter 8
- Events and Responders
-
- Chapter 9
- Mach and the Window Server
-
- Chapter 10
- MathPaper and Multiple Windows (MathPaper is an app you build)
-
- Chapter 11
- Spawning Muitiple Processes
- and the Text Object
-
- Chapter 12
- Text and Rich Text
-
- Chapter 13
- Saving, Loading, and Printing
-
- Chapter 14
- Drawing with Display PostScript
-
- Chapter 15
- Draw yourself:
- All About NeXTSTEP Views
-
- Chapter 16
- GraphPaper: A Muiti-Threaded
- Application with a Display List
-
- Chapter 17
- Color
-
- Chapter 18
- View Resizing and Mouse Tracking
-
- Chapter 19
- Zooming and Saving Graphics Files
-
- Chapter 20
- The Pasteboard and Services
-
- Chapter 21
- Preferences and Defaults
-
- **note that every chapter has a number of subparts
-
- The infomation contained in this book is easily worth the $40
- I paid.
-
- Happy happy happy
-
- --
- Ronald Pomeroy [Objective-Cruntime: [Smalltalk runtime]];
- Advanced Micro Devices [self dream-on];
- CAM Applications Group
- rpomeroy@aunext1.amd.com (NeXTmail preferred)
-